It's all down to anti-social media. Trivial spats are magnified, users are encouraged to be angry about everything and there's a complete overload of information, much of which is irrelevant, distort… (View Post)

As always with these anti-social media centred arguments, they entirely lack nuance. I'd wager that the bulk of the country is, simultaneously, sympathetic to asylum seeking as a concept and unsympat… (View Post)

This is an area where commercial decisions (or, in the case of the BBC, pseudo-commercial decisions) apply. Crudely put, the BBC has decided that paying Gary Lineker a fortune and, for that matter, m… (View Post)

This is fair. The Conservative Party has won more than 30% of all votes cast at every General Election for its entire history, including 1997 (and the median age of the electorate has only crept up s… (View Post)

I'd be cautious about projecting the trends of the first two decades of the century too far into the future. Commentary can be so fixated on Britain's domestic problems and those of the wider West th… (View Post)