While I appreciate that Stuart will be beyond delighted at those Scottish numbers, they look pretty rogue to me. (View Post)

So.. Liberals, you mean. Economically and socially liberal is not exactly a rump point of view. (View Post)

The historians will be arguing for decades about this, and it is an open question as to what the collective West could have done, once it was accepted that the Russian Federation was the successor st… (View Post)

The difference is that other countries do not ignore their problems until it is too late. Travelling on Polish Roads over the past 30 years has been transformed, for example. The speed limit on what … (View Post)

Well, I do have the privilege of seeing other countries where the problems are neither so serious nor so ignored. The astonishing modernization of countries like Estonia and Poland is exciting and ac… (View Post)