No, as he's using a different authority to impose them - not the International Emergency Economic Powers Act but Section 301 of the Trade Act 1974. So I imagine it'll be another year as the… (View Post)

I don't think Mandelson was particularly competent in his relatively brief times in government before he was forced to resign - certainly no strokes of genius spring to mind, and quite a few mis… (View Post)

It depends. If the Americans, uncharacteristically for them, have a coherent plan for Iran that might get a better government in there, then there might be a case for helping them. If they're ju… (View Post)

Yet again they have failed to plan for the most predictable consequences of their actions. Anyone who has attended a first year undergraduate economics course knows that if you increase the price of … (View Post)

They did all that because we twice threatened to invade (Plan W) if they didn't cooperate. On the only thing we really needed, use of the Treaty Ports to stop our ships being sunk in the Atlanti… (View Post)