Good summary, but there's one aspect underplayed imo. I started calling him Lord Mandelbrot when he became a Lord back in 2008 or so, on my blog. The Mandelbrot Set was in fashion at the time, a… (View Post)

This is quite interesting, and smacks a little of some of the legislation of the Blair era - potentially written to be very broad, and designed to catch things that definitely need to be caught but c… (View Post)

You now know how he earned his nickname :smile: . That's why I think of The Master; Lord Mandelbrot regenerates. I'm not sure if even the new Ambassador can insert himself into the voices i… (View Post)

"The Prince of Darkness" was actually coined in Labour circles much earlier - going back to the 1990s (I'm not sure when in the 1990s). (View Post)

To my mind that is pure, unadulterated bollocks. USA trade policy has afaics always pursued it's own interest before free trade. (View Post)