I know people here often bemoan the state of the Royal Navy, but today I invite you to feel better about it by considering the state of the Irish Naval Service. Nominally this consists of six vessels… (View Post)

Incidentally, on June 28th this year we will be as long from the date of Biden's birth as Biden's birth was from the start of the US Civil War. (View Post)

No actor is old enough to play the US President unless they were on stage in the theatre when Lincoln was assassinated. (View Post)

I'm quite attracted to the 3D politics analysis from Electoral Calculus. One of the main conclusions is that you can divide British voters into broadly seven different groups. The differences be… (View Post)

It's a mentality. People's ideas about their own country are all the stuff of myth-making, with only a tenuous connection to the reality that lies behind it. And also the newness of the US … (View Post)