The NI cut is much bigger than a 5% increase in energy prices. (View Post)

People who are used to rapid growth factor in an assumption that the future will be much better. We’re also very far away from the reality of mass hardship that most people (apart from the wealthy) t… (View Post)

Pretty well, all Western countries have seen living standards grow (if at all), much more slowly since 2000, than was the norm, from c.1950. That results in instability. (View Post)

But, so often, the Che Guevaras, Maos, Pol Pots, Osama bin Ladens, Sukarnos, Khomeinis et al, are appreciably worse than the people they overthrow. Many terrorists are indeed evil people, whose motiv… (View Post)

A Jewish State would have been resented, wherever it was located. (View Post)