Don't think so - they are locked into international trade, and doing well out of it. It's a huge country and we tend toi overinterpret news from individual bits of it, egged on by hostile T… (View Post)

At the more modest (read pathetic) end of the scale, in my very first job as an IT manager I was sent to a meeting in Germany. After we'd finished, I went to my room with The Times. The hotel ha… (View Post)

Yes, I got on Pecresse at a good price but have taken savers on Le Pen and Zemmour, on the basis that whichever reaches the next round will shorten to 2-1 or better. I'd have thought the far rig… (View Post)

When I was on the European Affairs Select Committee, I asked if I could subscribe on expenses to a weekly Danish newspaper to contribute the Scandinavian viewpoint on current developments, though I a… (View Post)

Mm. But the point about monarchy is that we don't get to choose. If things had turned out slightly differently, we'd now have King Andrew I, and we would have to suck it up. That's why… (View Post)