Nonsense. The world leader in predicting disaster is Ambrose Evans-Pritchard. He has predicted 1,765 of the last 1 financial crashes. (View Post)

The real life Japanese Samurai system was thus - people banging on about honour non-stop. While lying, cheating, stealing and murdering non-stop. (View Post)

He started out by burning political capital in his own party at an extraordinary rate. The WFP stuff was sheer political suicide - the sensible approach would be to have taken all the old age benefit… (View Post)

Starmer has a talent for, upon any given policy, of first upsetting many on his own side, then those opposed to him. And then many who are indifferent to the issue. Then he does a U-turn. This is how… (View Post)

My dear Minister, one treads here upon administrative terrain of such refined and almost constitutional sensitivity that any attempt at plain speaking risks upsetting arrangements whose very purpose … (View Post)