I recall a sense of disorientation on visiting the Resolution Foundation. Dedicated to the British poor but oozing money and decorated principally with paintings of the Soviet military. It felt very far from Blackpool.

He's wrong about Ireland. But it's odd that a person in a country powerless to stop the war thinks it’s helpful and important to donate to an organisation committing sabotage in a foreign country only marginally less powerless. There's something knee-jerk about it.

Thanks again. We're just making different points.

Yes, true. I'm not sure, though, it affects the point that Rooney doesn't have to support groups that commit sabotage. The group that organises mass marches doesn't.

Or Rooney could switch her support to one of the activist groups that doesn't commit sabotage.

"... style alone isn't decisive. The giveaway, rather, was the reader's aside that the author ought to release beavers in the university's pond."

I recall a non-fiction book a few years ago that a woman wrote about her domestic worker--hired, presumably, so she had time to write about her domestic worker.

I think we should accept & respect that lots of people don't like wind turbines, stress instead they're necessary, & keep them as far as is reasonable away from sites of natural beauty.

Whether or not wind turbines are a blot and and flatter parts of England are boring are subjective judgments. Better to argue turbines are necessary.

What's wrong with printing them in America? It serves them right if they now have to pay an 80% tariff.