Illustrating what I mean. There's a big risk of wasting a lot of money. 'Welfare v guns' is a misleading framing. (View Post)

Premium bonds. (View Post)

But I've been thinking recently, re MAGA, how Lost Cause ethic animates and underlies it. Two of them actually. The original Civil War and its later refighting in the Civil Rights battles of the… (View Post)

On Today a government minister was asked by Webb if the public should be careful about energy usage - what with there being a war on and all. In answering he took great pains to say no, people should… (View Post)

Oh dear. Can the police do anything? (View Post)