The UK (Treasury) really needs to get over its “open to anybody and anyone” reflex ideology. It’s self-harming. The government should simply take over Thames Water. (View Post)

So it turns out that great swathes of X (Twitter) MAGA types actually hail from Africa, Asia, and so on. And a decent chunk of Scottish Nationalists too. Russian psyops remain formidable. (View Post)

China seems less ideologically evangelical than the West is/was. (View Post)

I have to thank @Sean_F for putting me onto the historian of the British Empire Ronald Hyam, who incidentally died this year. (View Post)

I doubt we really disagree. The point i am trying to make is simply that the U.S. is less reliable than it was. That shared set of values that made the U.S. an unthinkingly obvious choice are now sev… (View Post)