Ah, but compare the average French lunch to the average Polish lunch... (View Post)

The whole US political system goes out of its way to make it easy for rich people to influence many areas of US policy and society: see Charles Koch, Sheldon Adelson, Elon Musk, Harlan Crow etc. on t… (View Post)

A friend is something of a polyglot. She gets annoyed with people online who are always looking for One Simple Trick to learn a language quickly. There's no such thing, she says. You just have to put… (View Post)

Yet Polanski has achieved record polling numbers for the party, and they’re doing well in by-elections too. (View Post)

You say this weekly, it doesn’t make it any more true. Reform model themselves on MAGA. MAGA also depend on the votes of poorer people on Govt-funded healthcare, but they’ve still slashed that health… (View Post)