The alignment process for joining the EU includes getting corruption down, at each step in the process. Watching this process in Montenegro has been rather interesting. (View Post)

The trick is to avoid picking winners by backing *development* of multiple technologies. See DARPA When I was younger and more stupid, I used to advocate a U.K. DARPA, to various politicians. They al… (View Post)

Germany is in a continuing recession/near recession caused by a collapse in their export led manufacturing. Doing better than Germany is a very low bar at the moment. (View Post)

As someone who voted remain, I am always interested in the belief that by putting off a vote and ignoring the issue, it would just go away. The sane thing would have been to have a referendum *earlie… (View Post)

Best summation of the Middle East war - (View Post)