A 5-10% chance is plenty when it comes to things like No Deal or a nuclear exchange. Tends to concentrate the mind. (View Post)

Of course - they're already high on it. (View Post)

The honours system is utterly wonderful. The fact that József Szájer - the Hungarian politician who was recently forced to flee a 25-man orgy in Brussels via a drainpipe while wearing nothing but a b… (View Post)

Yes, strategic people often find themselves forced to act in a dilemma in which either choice is to their disadvantage. But he's also forensic and far-sighted too. That's why he's ende… (View Post)

Those allergic to assertions of national exceptionalism would do well to avoid Pericles' Funeral Oration, delivered when the Parthenon was new and Athens boasted more talent per head than just a… (View Post)