It has lost huge respect from the Gulf nations - Saudi, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, UAE, Oman - whose hosting of US miltary bases made their hydrocarbon (and tourism) industries very exposed as targets. … (View Post)

Greetings from Liguria. (View Post)

People only spending a measly six squid.... (View Post)

Not sure that will survive through to the election. The Mail on Sunday is girding its loins for the fight to keep it, natch. (View Post)

Their business model needs destroying. It will come to be seen as the poison at the heart of the first quarter of the 21st century. History will ask "What the fuck were they thinking?" (View Post)