I find the Institute for the Study of War and Adam Whitehead are both very good on Ukraine. (View Post)

I’ve long believed that people who keep others as slaves do so because they enjoy owning slaves, rather than for economic reasons. As long ago as 1776, Adam Smith demonstrated that free labour is mor… (View Post)

Trump’s method of negotiation is to grovel to those he sees as strong, and bully those he sees as weak. (View Post)

Ukraine giving up the Donbas for “peace” makes as much sense as Czechoslovakia giving up the Sudetenland. Making concessions to bullies only emboldens them. (View Post)

Ju Juries can deliver perverse verdicts, and very plainly, a perverse verdict was delivered in this case. Like Jeremy Thorpe or Ken Dodd. That does not mean that jury trials must be abolished. (View Post)