Did young people have it easy, working in coal mines, insanitary factories, or in agriculture? Or fighting two World Wars? That tweet is just an endless whine. (View Post)

Timing matters, too, for great leaders. Lincoln was the right man in 1860, Churchill in 1940, Truman in 1945, but perhaps not at other times. (View Post)

AOC is too left wing for US voters. (View Post)

Re fiscal matters, I see I’ve paid over £600,000 in IHT, and a million in Stamp Duty over the past year, which is staggering for one very small firm. (View Post)

I also quite slightly irritated with the view that “we” (by which I mean rich world nations), can’t do anything worthwhile, so we might as well not do anything at all. Some military interventions, in… (View Post)