Those paragons of the primacy of international law, Germany and France, are preparing to carve up Ukraine in a deal with a murderous tyrant. To make it stop. Fact. (View Post)

So we keep hearing. In the early days of the Vietnam war the US press were full of stories about how the VC were getting spanked, the government were upbeat, the communists are taking terrible casual… (View Post)

France and Germany's stance then appears to be that a murderous tyrant like Putin can have full control over bits of Ukraine, but they will not budge an inch over Northern Ireland in negotiations wit… (View Post)

Developing basic resources like hyrdocarbons and wheat is where the underlying strength is. Britain has plentiful supplies of one of these. But Net Zero, innit. (View Post)

Go back in time and view, on PB, the torrent of scorn and contempt that was poured on jurisdictions that rejected the 'model, predict, frighten and respond with restrictions' orthodoxy. (View Post)