There was no argument for locking down healthy young people who were about as likely to be struck by lightning as they were to die from COVID. There was some argument for measures for over-70s or tho… (View Post)

Why would anybody take that posturing Froggy dwarf seriously when he's on his way out and can't even pass a budget containing the current level of defence expenditure? (View Post)

I don't think Reich is right. Trump isn't showing the power of an oligarchy in America. Trump didn't just pointlessly impose tariffs on Canada because Silicon Valley or Wall Street cla… (View Post)

I wouldn't say Obama was well endowed with wisdom - see his disastrously feeble reactions to Russia in Ukraine and Syria, or his idiotic quote to Romney, who tried to warm him about Russia, that… (View Post)

Of course it's possible that an authoritarian populist could be elected as PM. The question is whether, once he overreached, as all authoritarians do, he could be got rid of easily. Here I think… (View Post)