Yes, I don't care about these much one way or the other but if we give them back to Greece we need to ask for something in return. One of their islands as a camp for asylum seekers, money, somet… (View Post)

This time of year the south is amazing. About ten years ago I did Kochi to Madras/Chennai and it was stunning. PM me if you want any more info. Also Sri Lanka is good. Heading to Singapore myself on … (View Post)

Maybe, but the trouble is that people like Gove (or Gordon Brown or Ed Miliband), who think they're very intelligent and can master complicated areas of policy by reading a couple of articles in… (View Post)

I don't agree. From my civil servant days there were roughly three types of minister: - those who were experienced in their subject, knew what they wanted to do and set about doing it. These wer… (View Post)

That's certainly a danger. But ignoring Ukraine's genuine difficulties risks giving the West a pass for its increasingly slow, late and miserly deliveries of weapons to the heroic Ukrainian… (View Post)