There is a certain strand in the US that is spoiling for a fight with Beijing. Personally I dont love dictatorships, but the PRC is not an illegitimate state and it is not our fight as to whether or … (View Post)

Well, he is not my political brand, but I see the warm hearted, generous civic nationalism showing its full joyful nature here. Whether you like him or not, Brown is respected in Scotland, which is m… (View Post)

History repeats itself twice. First as tragedy. Then as farce. (View Post)

Another day, another load of tripe on the economy being spouted by Liz Truss. Her comments that the massive disruption identified by the BoE MPC can be *avoided* by her badly structured and mistimed … (View Post)

The war was unleashed as an unprovoked attack by Russia against Ukraine. The Russian attackers have undertaken a series of particularly brutal atrocities- rape, torture and murder- especially against… (View Post)