Keynesian Liberal

    Sir Keir Starmer's speech last week in which he attempted to set the agenda for a post-pandemic Britain, called for a "spirit ...

  Apart from Alaska all the states of the US except Texas  have agreements with the other sates that, if one of them runs short of electrici...

 When someone is elected to the United States Senate he or she takes an oath:   I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and ...

   The government's proposals, leaked over the weekend,  to re-reform the NHS raise some interesting questions. First, credit where cre...

  That "Patriotism is the last Refuge of the Scoundrel" is probably the best known of the sayings of Dr Johnson.  Apparently an ou...

The landmark figure of 100 000 coronavirus related deaths was officially reached yesterday though I'd thought I'd seen the figure ea...

  Tomorrow, 27th January, is Holocaust Memorial Day. On pages 141 et seq of his "Is this a Man?"  Primo Levi describes how prison...