Danger of feeding and emboldening the monster though. Not an easy call. My instinct is to increase support to Ukraine to the max short of military intervention and call bluff on warnings from Moscow,… (View Post)

Come off it! Johnson is a thoroughly reprehensible character but a principled moralist with an extreme authoritarian ideology is much more dangerous and will cause a lot more suffering. Pol Pot, Leni… (View Post)

I do have sympathy with that view. Johnson is a remarkable character to have risen to the top because he is a total bullshitter, reflex liar and a sort of Mr Toad from Wind in the Willows. Nonetheles… (View Post)

Sadly you are among the significant group of people who downplay or somehow cannot face the reality of Corbyn's fanatical and delusional world-view. (View Post)

Looking like a big thaw in relations with with Iran is on the cards. They will distance from Russia and step up gas and oil exports. A lot of governments and strategists will be assuming the current … (View Post)