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In view of the deliberate and shameful depreciation of humanities subjects people might find this interesting.https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/memoirs/humanities-scholars-who-worked-military-intelligence-second-world-war/ I am

Everyone should read this.I shall make a prediction: treating the devolved nations as inconveniences whose views should not trouble the policies and attitudes of Westminster will lead to the end

It occurs to me that many people - individuals, commentators, pundits, politicians - have invested so much emotional and political capital in Brexit that almost any cognitive feat of affirmation,

Classic Takes* The few from the many*THREAD 1. The show opener - not so much as the entire world watched John King et al 2. Really? 3. Erm. 4. ‘Wokeness’

1. The crucial problem at the moment isn’t so much the absence of leadership as the predominance of very bad leadership. Thread 2. The evidence is, as they say, visible

1. Do you remember the Ennio Morricone composed theme tune to the Good the Bad and the Ugly? I ask because it began to rattle through my head as I

The more I think about it the more I think that ‘living with it’ is the correct mindset but that the mistake has been to equate ‘living with it’ as

This is a great piece which I commend to you all. It reflects an issue I’ve been pondering, for the lay person, who to trust?https://twitter.com/jeremyfarrar/status/1313888997043773441 It is symptomatic of our

Time for a New Prime Minister1. Brexit would have been challenge enough but with the pandemic at the same time the government has had to deal with the most severe

My entirely speculative theory is that the whole sordid mess is explained by the failure of Frost’s negotiating strategy. The ‘they’ll give in if we stick to our guns’ plan

1. Another Sunday marooned on the desert island of pandemic and Brexit, I reflect once again on the burning question of our time:Is the government’s appetite for no deal evidence

1. As I perused this fascinating piece, the first thought that leaped to mind was not ‘those dastardly Europeans’ or ‘this dastardly government’ but ‘ecological fallacy’, a phrase one occasionally