America is a shadow of itself and now cast a dark shadow across the world. The spectacle in the Oval Office was a disgraceful ...

It’s Winter in our world: harsh, unforgiving. Will it ever end? Yet Spring is coming: the seeds are sown, and green shoots ...

As Keir Starmer touches down in Washington the British media uniformly continue the now bizarre folklore of a ‘Special Relationship’ between Britain and the US. This is long past its ...

Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman, Born to Rule: the making and remaking of the British Elite, Harvard University Press 2024.

From The Province Of The Cat by George Gunn Before he became a politician, “Sir” Keir Starmer was the Director of Public ...

Paul Mason has been widely criticised, for good reason imho, but some of his analysis here was right. But where I think he’s ...

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Necropsy – meaning: an examination of a body after death. Today Sir Keir Starmer has confirmed that defence spending will rise to 2.5% of GDP, an additional £13.4bn per year. This means big cuts to ...

I like the idea of Bella as a Sandbox, a lab for ideas, a space where people can run with things and try them out. This has had a few practical examples of writers trying things out that then went on ...