Also the Americans wouldn't want it. And I'm sure that even the French would eventually realise that kicking us out, while leaving Russia and China in, wouldn't be in their interests, … (View Post)

I'll bet he was one of those kids whose parents were always having to tell them to keep still and stop demanding everybody's attention. (View Post)

The Ambrose Evans-Pritchard approach... (View Post)

Countries that don't obsess about their "role in the world" are generally rather more effective, and usually much happier, than those that do. (And, yes, that applies to us). (View Post)

Well, it started long before that actually. Forty years of being taken for granted as long as we signed cheques each year. In fact it started with the disastrously unfavourable entry terms we got in … (View Post)