Definitely! Whether it's idealising hygge or misreading the trajectory of Danish social democracy, so-called progressive Brits do like to read into Denmark what they want

Some in the government must have found the milkshake poem in Before Sunrise a traumatic formative experience

Glasman: 'We will keep fighting the 1955 general election until you give us the RIGHT answer!'
The newspaper of British Conservativism: 'What a necessary voice!'

How to be an effective liberal

It is a good word! It means that the new album is your Brusque rather than your Black album 😉

Aw, I love Precipice! The way it finally unfolds into 'UNNNNNN-GRIEVABLE!!!' is fantastic. But yes, the new album is still your best

and it's a feature, not a bug, of whatever mangled faction this is that is running Labour. these people are able to do one thing and one thing alone - fight factional wars against the left.

they're absolutely shit at literally anything else.

I live in Leeds nowadays, but still work at Manc uni and can travel over as well. But yes, that would be great.

Likewise! You post a lot more than me! I've thought of you more than once in the last weeks when getting angry about this govt, and your thread shows why. Also, next week (the week on East Asia) is my annual tradition of saying 'read Death of Mao and his Foreign Policy articles' to my MA students