“We” - which was mostly right-wing American economists and economics majors - with a few European cheerleaders - also gave them some truly terrible advice and guidance. The rapid ham-fisted privatisa… (View Post)

The vulnerability is being dependent on the US for logistics, command and control, air cover, and communications, etc. Such that Europe alone can’t do much for Ukraine, despite all the billions we ar… (View Post)

Turning on the news nowadays is just "what's he gone and done now?", isn't it? (View Post)

For sure. But we also need more Europe. And, more critically than ever, we need someone to work out what precisely defence spending needs, in the modern era. The Ukrainians with their masses of drone… (View Post)

The plane I used to rent on the island was written off after three fat blokes hired it, and ran off the hard runway at too high a speed, after which the front wheel dug into the mud, the plane flippe… (View Post)