I tend to see it as a form of extra income tax which people incur if they opt to go into Higher Education. The alternative is that everyone pays for the costs, including those who go into employment … (View Post)

That really was a misjudgement of historic magnitude, wasn't it? Schroder and Merkel. What a relay team... (View Post)

Obama's approach to Russia, and his contemptuous dismissal of Romney's warnings about Putin, have not worn well, it has to be said. (View Post)

Have we heard anything recently about or from the former German Chancellor, Gerhard Schroder? He was close to Putin and a proponent of NordStream. Even Salmond seems to have nothing on Schroder... Fr… (View Post)

This is quite something. Vladimir Putin's public humiliation of his spy chief at the recent conclave. I hadn't realised quite how contemptuous he is of his apparatchiks. Subtitles provided. Really wo… (View Post)