a If the EU (or anyone else) wants to protect the steel industry, long term, then it needs to work out how to produce steel cheaply. But tariffs are the fentanyl of politics. A cheap, quick high. Tha… (View Post)

In the case of the fentanyl (and similar) epidemic, the point is that the deaths aren’t delayed. The body count is now. Which is why a certain kind of people see it as useful - getting rid of a probl… (View Post)

Here’s something to amuse. My relative who runs a building company came across, a long while back, a couple of guys who had British passports. Valid, but they had no right to them. Apparently one pas… (View Post)

Quite a few of the fires etc in Russia, Ukraine and third countries seem to have been carried out by recruiting local malcontents and/or offers of money. There have been indications that Russia has b… (View Post)

All that plus no thought as to needing a positive vision of an alternative. Otherwise being anti-Reform is just “Reform in a mirror” (View Post)