Bread, European war, and circuses
What bothers you more, a few clandestine slices of cake or the dangerous slide to European war?
The horror: BBC hounded for inviting unvaccinated onto Question Time
Once again, it is those who are screaming ‘shhhhh’ that are the loudest.
So we can discuss immigration now?
No meaningful resistance is allowed; the population knows that.
Is sending arms to Ukraine a move of deep geostrategic wisdom?
Perhaps a policy that looks on the face of it a foolish adventure of the post-Cold War liberal hegemonic type could in fact be a wise strategic move.
The licence fee should be kept
The BBC does many things badly and is not what it could be. But changes to funding could make reform impossible.
Covid: what the hell happened, and why?
In my search for answers, nothing has been more helpful than Moral Foundations Theory.
The technocrat cometh
By refusing to vote, you refuse to endorse a system which allows no meaningful choice.
Hypernormalisation
Our leaders seem not only powerless to deal with any of this, but oblivious to it all.