It's not that America is too afraid, it's that a ground invasion is essentially impossible. If they were to do it, they'd have to do it properly - invading the country and occupying it… (View Post)

OK, nothing much new seems to be happening today, so here are some thoughts about what could happen longer term: - there's a referendum to rejoin the EU in the late 2030s. Yes wins convincingly … (View Post)

"Those Know Your Customer, Anti-Money Laundering and Politically Exposed Persons rules don’t seem to be working as they ought." Nobody who knows anything about business ever thought they wo… (View Post)

Israel isn't truly democratic because of its ethnic cleansing of 700,000 Palestinians in 1948, who it then refused to readmit, despite clear obligations under conventions that it itself signed t… (View Post)

Also his schooldays at a detested prep school in Sussex and his time in the Indian Imperial Police. And of course the real life contemporaneous nightmares of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia that he fo… (View Post)