That's a best a half-truth. Hitler didn't really "win" power, he was handed it through a backroom deal with von Papen, a man whose political judgement makes Liz Truss look like To… (View Post)

Rubbish. Oil and gas now makes up about 8% of America's GDP, compared with about 40-50% of Saudi Arabia's, depending on the oil price. That's up from about 4% ten years ago - a decent … (View Post)

I can't stand this government, but if it were like Putin's mafia, Starmer's cronies would have sent you (and me for that matter) flying from a basement window a long time ago. (View Post)

Talking of four years being a long time, in Guardianista economics, fifteen months is apparently even longer. 108 lefty economists prophesied disaster for Javier Milei in the Guardian in November 202… (View Post)

I think we're further away from civil conflict now than we were in the period 2016-19, when the refusal or inability of a large part of the political class to implement the results of the larges… (View Post)