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)

The funny thing is that waging war to seize natural resources or key industries is almost always more expensive than just purchasing the stuff. The Japanese finished up with three shiploads of oil, f… (View Post)