Neither the sword or the shield ever achieves a permanent victory in war. (View Post)

Some fuel stations in St Petersburg have now introduced a 20-litre limit on fuel sales. I wonder how the taxi drivers in the city are coping? (View Post)

Britain is heading towards becoming a second-rate military power within Europe and the trajectory is such that it will become a third-rate power soon afterwards. Maybe the British people are adopting… (View Post)

This is why it is necessary for political leaders to lead, rather than to follow focus groups. (View Post)

I'm not sure why Britain should be subsidising hospitality as an industry by cutting VAT anyway. It's a consumption industry and one of Britain's economic problems is not enough produc… (View Post)