Serves you right for invading Russia? (View Post)

On social media it was suggested that the way to stop Trump forever going on about Greenland would be to rename it Epstein Island. I doubt the locals would be that keen, however. (View Post)

I’d suggest that many of the people who drive along at half the speed limit, hoping this will compensate for infirmity or slowness of reaction that they are wanting to hide from the authorities, are … (View Post)

The emerging big question of the so-called ‘west’, pending the midterms, is whether the rest of the democratic world can or will step up and confront Trump’s crude, idiotic American self-obsession. S… (View Post)

A key learning point from history - cf. the book I recommended above - is that to control a society you need both control of key political positions and a bunch of deniable thugs (deniable in the sen… (View Post)