The point is, it works *this time*. In 1997 calling Brown worst chancellor ever or Blair a gloomy technocrat would have been so obviously untrue nobody bothered to say it. (View Post)

The exact inverse of the truth. Pain and guilt are what magically ceased on 4 July. We are watching a different version of the same comedy, but the legitimate reaction to it is now to kick back, open… (View Post)

How, in a very real sense, true that is. A timely observation with which I wholeheartedly concur. This. +1. (View Post)

Envious. In March I am doing a 4 day trip from Ushuaia to Puntas Arenas just so I can say I have achieved virtually nothing in life but at least I have rounded Cape Horn. (View Post)

Incoherent. UK thought "from a UK cultural perspective" about US affairs is a paradigm of bubbly groupthink. You can be a lot more robust about Trump, he is a shit and a bully and a traitor… (View Post)