On Saturday, President Elect Trump made a call to the Taiwanese Premier, breaching protocols in place since Nixon’s 1972 visit to Beijing. FB and Twitter have been abuzz with accusations of ineptitude or – the Donald allegedly having business designs on … Read More »
Syria .. Putin .. Brexit .. Corbyn .. climate change .. Trump. What have they in common? All are issues on which most of us have opinions we imagine we arrived at ourselves. But didn’t Asch and Milgram show how … Read More »
One aspect of the torpedoing of Boris by Gove and his missis, Sarah Vine, is this line in her email to hubby: Crucially, the membership will not have the necessary reassurance to back Boris, neither will Dacre/Murdoch, who instinctively dislike … Read More »
Update 31/12/16. See also Smoke & mirrors: the war on ‘fake news’ Like many others I’ve shifted in the last year from irritation to disgust at the Guardian’s growing reluctance to act as a reliable and fair provider of news … Read More »