“The Russian soul is a dark place.” Angus Deaton has a new book out. Not the disgraced former presenter of Have I Got News for You, but the Nobel prize winning Economist. Deaton was the first person to use the phrase “deaths of despair” to describe the declining life expectancy of non-college educated white … Read more
In America the Republican Party are in a bigger mess than their British cousins. The Democrats control the White House and the Senate. The Republicans only control the lower house, and by a small margin, after a disappointing showing in the mid terms. That poor showing was largely due to selecting pro-Trump candidates who repelled voters. … Read more
In case you missed it right wing populist politics just took a bit of a duffing up this week. The British Government lost 2 by-elections in one day – Tamworth and Mid-Beds. Both were safe Tory seats. If these results were replicated at a General Election* the Conservatives would be the 4th largest party … Read more
Apologies for no videos of bad dancing or chaos. Sadly Labour were far to well organised for shit like that. Starmer may not have sealed the deal with voters, but he has finally won over his own party. They may not love him, but they are united behind the Labour leader for pragmatic if not … Read more
Warning: the following video contains scenes which may upset some viewers: Politics is about gut instincts, and ideologies are our ways to explain away what those gut instincts lead us to. If this is true then we are learning a lot about the Conservative Party. The old Conservative Party, that wanted to conserve what was … Read more
