Fullyplumped
in a personal capacity
Yes, they are. They are also very knowledgeable and express themselves well. Nobody is asking you to agree with them.
Did you know, as Hopi points out, that the Irish government has cut civil service pay by ten per cent?
Had you heard, as Luke reports, that Fabian Society General Secretary Sunder Katwala had called for a "pre-emptive progressive coalition" to be formed before the end of April, with the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats joining together as a political force and Gordon Brown appointing Nick Clegg as Deputy Prime Minister. Luke describes it as a betrayal of the British electorate and Labour Party members as great as that of Ramsay MacDonald in 1931.
Maybe you knew these things, but I didn't. We should all read widely, to broaden our knowledge and test our assumptions. It is easy to read stuff you agree with and that flatters what you think of as your sound taste and judgement. It is harder to read things and engage with people you disagree with, but it helps you test your thinking and thus think better. And it helps you realise that sometimes you are wrong.
