You have to remember there are departments of people in Whitehall whose only function is to try to work out how to ban certain “harms”. They don’t care about pubs closing, it’s outside their remit. A… (View Post)

The President of the Security Council, who just happens to be Somalia’s UN rep (Somalia having assumed the Presidency at the beginning of this year)…seems to be caught up in this US Healthcare/Childc… (View Post)

It’s been a great investment by Russia. It weakened Western European solidarity, and the UK economy to boot. UK is simply less consequential these days. All this is true even if we allow the critical… (View Post)

I do not think the U.S. would provide any military response to a Chinese blockade of Taiwan. It has been US policy my entire life to remain suitably ambiguous about this up until the current day, in … (View Post)

It is worth considering what would happen if Danish troops were to fire on American ones, killing them. Obviously Denmark / EU is not in a position to defend Greenland but it would have a choice abou… (View Post)