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Piers Morgan fell on his own sword, or that belonging to the weather forecaster, Alex Beresford. You choose your battles and there were plenty of loopholes in the Harry and Meghan victim-fest for him to question, but instead he went…
What is currently on my radar: music, politics, books etc. What I am reading The British in India by David Gilmour. A social history of the Raj.Fascinating and readable journey about what made India different as a British colony to…
It has been clear for a while this government is not going to admit any mistakes with this COVID pandemic, probably out of hubris. Few governments have managed this crisis well so that is not the issue. What is important…
What is currently on my radar. What I am reading A Promised Land by Barak Obama – written as a detailed chronicle of his time in power rather than an entertaining mass market read. What podcast I am listening to…
John Naughton lends his weight to the debate on social media and freedom of speech in his Observer article on the furore over Trump and social media but let’s his own bias get in the way. John Naughton goes back…
Two recent events on Twitter both highlighted some important questions about Twitter as a public square and how we respond as a society to it. The first one is Trump being banned from Twitter for what Twitter called a “risk”…
Watching Vice President Mitch McConnell last night on BBC News eloquently portray how he could not stand by trump in his stubborn campaign to deny the result of the us election, instead calling it a fraud that had to be…
The woke have no vision of the future by John Gray on Unherd.com Whatever happened to our pluralist, liberal society that we are now in a model whereby the only outlet for mainstream voices is the election or referendum –…
