Our GDP performance is also nothing like Japan’s. Theirs is abject. Politicians rarely mention demographics. It’s the rest of us. But just look at the basic maths and weep. Healthcare spending has to… (View Post)

It’s almost as if the US admin is being paid by Brussels. (View Post)

I remember the insults thrown at France after Chirac refused to go along with the Iraq war. Remember freedom fries? Couple of years later and it was all forgotten. (View Post)

One of the reasons I booked a series of long train journeys for this summer, Paul Theroux style, was to get me back into reading a book every few days. As it happens I’ve started back up months ahead… (View Post)

There’s something else to consider: Trump is inoculating the rest of the West against far right populism. Long may that continue. Same as the state failure of late communist USSR and more recently Cu… (View Post)