In real life, murder is a hum drum squalid crime of violence. As depicted in UK TV drama, it is sometimes of the Scandinavian noir variety – that is squalid but not hum drum – or more usually it happens in a rustic middle class la-la land where the houses are straight out of Country […]
What are political parties for? You may have your own ideas about that. However, the official answer is that they came into existence alongside mass democracy, to identify and support candidates in elections, to mobilise voters to vote for them and to formulate policies around which candidates and voters can coalesce. If so, they are […]
When I was at prep school a long time ago, if you were clever (which I was not) you could be clever in two different ways. Either you were good at Maths or you were good at Latin – you could not be good at both. If you were very good at Maths, you were […]
Jan Karpinski 