Is this fair? A YouGov explored Brotosh public attitudes towards 48 groups, categorised by gender, age, ethnicity and religion. They found that people considered white British men in their 20s to be the most lazy, rude and promiscuous people in the country; the most likely to get drunk; and, along with black Caribbean men in …
“The support of the American Christian evangelicals for Donald Trump is the life jacket preventing Trump from slipping into unrecoverable political depths”. Michael Gerson in today’s Washington Post.
“Things weren’t necessarily better in ye olden dayes, or even all that different. But what, oh what, has happened to the grapefruit? When I was a kid, you would often sit down to a meal (not necessarily breakfast), to be confronted with a halved grapefruit. The reason hotels no longer serve grapefruit is that Britain …
Trump’s current behaviour is so bizarre that it has become the chief talking point at very meeting and every dinner party. His inopportune and cruel sacking of Jim Comey, head of the FBI, has had a dozen explanations, all contradictory, from the White House. So, for the benefit of non-American readers the following is a …
Breaking news: the U.S. Air Force is running out of ordinary bombs, smart bombs, and in some cases missiles. No kidding. The air war over Syria and Iraq that began in August 2014 and is now two-and-a-half years old has eaten through America’s supply of bombs. The usual crew of weapons makers evidently can’t produce …
