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Britain is about to get her sixth Prime Minister in seven years. Sir Keir Starmer announced his resignation from the highest political office in the United Kingdom from outside the famous black front door of Number 10, Downing Street on Monday, and will apparently leave in September. This is a fast-moving story, and as I write there is talk about Starmer leaving office in July if there is no leadership contest. (more…)
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The British political landscape has shifted more in the past five years than it did over the preceding century. By the mid-19th century, the Whig Party had disbanded (as the American Whigs also did at around the same time) or transformed into the Liberal Party. The turn of the 20th century saw the creation of the Labour Party, and a political binary that would last for over 100 years. (more…)
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In July of 2025, Donald Trump broke his promise to release the Department of Justice’s Jeffrey Epstein files. In December of 2025, Congress forced the release of the files, so the Trump administration has now resorted to foot-dragging, redactions, and disinformation about the contents of the files.
A flimsy yet common argument is that the files contain no hard evidence implicating anyone but Jeffrey Epstein and Gislaine Maxwell. (more…)
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It is an old party game to ask that someone or something be described as though they or it were an animal. If X was an animal, what type of animal would X be? For a long time, if the Epstein files had been an animal, they would have been Schrödinger’s cat. Did the files exist or didn’t they? (more…)