I see we’ve descended to not looking at potential evidence and instead taking a person-led approach to it.

Speaking as one who endured his Presidency, it was very harmful, pandemic response notwithstanding.

There’s a few things about the US I miss, and baseball is one of them. MLB at Nats Park, or the WV Miners in Fayetteville. It’s America at its most idealized version of itself.

My 4 year reminder to get your predictions and tracking from Larry Sabato at University of Virginia.

And Elon hit full sex pest mode

I had cataract surgery in late June. The difference is amazing, but the surgical experience….I’ve now had two eye surgeries, and thoroughly enjoyed both.

On holiday in the UK recently, I got access to my Dad’s The Oldie. Ellen’s column are like a reference back to The Word. The phrase I use about him in enthusiastically incisive. You can see a mind at work, but […]

I’d think carefully about the psychological aspects of the move – something I say as someone now on his third continent and 4th of 5th country. There’s a cycle people go through when they make big moves: This […]

That’s a nicer summary of what Lord Denning said. About the appeal of the Guildford Four.

I’m on holiday. What have I missed?

I actually kinda know the answer to that, chatting to my Indigenous Australian friends. It is a little like landmark navigating – turn left at the Wolf rock (for example) and go straight until you reach the […]

We use a Cuisinart drip machine that we brought over with us, since they are incredibly rare over here. We use an espresso machine at the weekends for the ‘nicer’ stuff, but I drink about 2 pints of the drip […]

If this were going to be bank breaking, I could understand. But to how many people does this apply?

Doing them might not make you a better person. Not doing them certainly won’t. I think it betrays a certain lack of interest in the world. And for someone seeking office, that is definitely a bad thing.

Sentences of 32 months after discount for guilty plea

There is a recidivism rate in England of 60%; Norway is 20%. The English system is broken, and trying to find alternatives strikes me as a good idea.

Not “apparently”. It’s fact

Way back in the mists of time, my summer job was emergency assistance for people with travel insurance – guaranteeing medical expenses, organizing hire cars and air ambulances etc. Got a call. “Hello, […]

Have you seen the list of settlements they’ve had to make for criminal acts?