That is a good point and an underrated reason for many otherwise inexplicable Vice-Presidential picks. Dan Quayle also springs to mind. Confident Presidential candidates on the other hand, like Ronal… (View Post)

Maybe, but if this country's last hope for prosperity rests on Trump, Farage and Mandelson we're in even worse shape than I thought ... (View Post)

There's plenty to blame Reeves for, but the rise in long-term gilt yields mostly reflects global factors, rather than anything this - admittedly dismal - government has done. If it reflected UK-… (View Post)

I'm not so sure. It's science fiction, but if you go back to RUR, the 1920 play by Karol Capek that coined the term robot, the robots, having slaughtered the human race, decide keep themsel… (View Post)

The NY charges were blatantly political - misdemaenours bootstrapped into felonies to get around the statute of limitations by a partisan DA. Not that he didn't do them, but if he weren't D… (View Post)