Decades of experience. That's always the way with American military action, especially in the Middle East - the tactical planning is amazing, the political planning for what happens next either … (View Post)

So which Starmer do you want in charge instead? The one who refused the US permission to use our bases, or the one who joined in a few hours later? He manages to be slippery, indecisive, out of his d… (View Post)

Yep. Killing people and blowing things up is the easy part. Building a decent and successful society in a divided, traumatised and heavily armed country with no tradition of good government is infini… (View Post)

I don't see a minority government with 200 seats working at all, especially not with Reform in charge. Any Budget or King's Speech would fail completely, let alone the first one of a Reform… (View Post)

I doubt Trump has been reliably captured by anyone. That would imply an interest in policy and effects that is totally unlike him. With him in charge it was always going to be "no foreign wars, … (View Post)