I am increasingly confident that he won't be, no matter how bad they are. The alternatives are worse and the Cabinet would be nervous about their jobs under a new leader as they were during the … (View Post)

I agree with quite a lot of what you are saying here but it is not true to say that Reagan did not support the UK against the Argentines. They actually offered to "loan" us an aircraft carr… (View Post)

A good friend of mine died at the end of last year of brain cancer. The speed from which he went from an exceptionally clever man to a paranoid shell was frankly terrifying to see. It’s a bloody grim… (View Post)

This is surely what firing squads are for. (View Post)

Is this Hari Seldon, the psychohistorian? I always thought he would be brilliant at political betting. (View Post)