In her overnight ‘Letter from an American’, Heather Cox Richardson noted: Yesterday two right-wing circuit judges signed off on the Trump administration’s new mass detention
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An ageing model
I was talking to a car dealer yesterday because the time has come to recognise that my 13-year-old Volvo might have reached the end of
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Why are the princesses Beatrice and Eugenie still considered to be royal?
I am aware that the media is currently saying a great deal about Peter Mandelson in connection with Jeffrey Epstein, but I am very worried
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Can the Greens deliver?
Mass membership growth means something real is happening in the Green Party in England and Wales. People – who I call the watermelons, as they’re
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Will Trump’s crypto bubble crash?
Bitcoin has halved in value since October, and this is not a routine market correction. It is a crash. In this video, I explain why
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How can we maintain the right to hold the powerful to account?
There is a slight sense of being overwhelmed this morning. We have lived through a tumultuous week. Through it all, attention has been paid to
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The Cambridge event
I was told last night that the tickets for our event in Cambridge are sold out. We are now seeing whether we can expand capacity
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Work is the curse of the social media classes
Please accept my apologies for the slowness in moderation today. There are two very good reasons for this. One is that lots of you commented,
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Will Trump’s bubble burst with crypto?
As The Guardian has noted: Bitcoin’s price sank to $63,000 on Thursday, its lowest level in more than a year, and half its all-time peak
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