Beware statistical effects. There are significantly more countries of that size, and a country of that size needs fewer successful industries to be economically successful, so you would expect more s… (View Post)

Interesting. Wonder what Kemi Badenoch has to say about that? Thanks for sharing. I do like this sort of follow-up on a story. (View Post)

Name the author, book, and rate the advisability of committing such a remark to print on a scale of 0 (not at all advisable) to 10 (positively to be encouraged). (View Post)

There have been two times in the last four and a bit years when I have felt afraid in a way that I had never felt afraid before. Am I just getting to be a fearful old man, or for a person who grew up… (View Post)

What worries me about the European response is that they seem to think this was all a misunderstanding, that they can find a way to smooth things over and bring the US back onside and supporting Ukra… (View Post)