Weather in Madrid has been exceptional this evening

Keep going I say

Anyway, it’s a fascinating study of american incomprehension at rejection and at Europe at large. But is sort of a love letter to Berlin too, just a fully u comprehending one.

Surely the point is put a price enough that it raises revenue without having a downwards pressure effect on consumption. Raising to compensate for lower revenues just defeats the point surely

But where are the eagles, I ask myself

Keir Starmer has said a number of things in his speech today where you look at it and go 'uh, this is complete nonsense that isn't backed up by anything the government is *actually* doing'. All going essentially unscrutinised.

ideally I'd like them to have a conference once a month, for morale

Andrew, mate, you sound like a bit of a tit if we're being honest with ourselves

I don't mean this lovingly. Fuck you buddy

I think the way you're expected to communicate with a mass audience has changed massively. But I also get a feeling you can't consciously reveal yourself to be more intelligent than your audience any more except in very specific settings

Not just a UK problem either. Even if you look at the populist Right or Left of European politics in the 1990s, the skill of figures like Jörg Haider or Gregor Gysi at engaging in debate would make them elite policy wonks compared to the intellectual standard of debate now

"Bread and circuses" is an actual expression actually used metaphorically today by actual people.

They wouldn't know what a big swing was if it swung round and hit them in the face