It's always been true to a degree. Adam Tooze's Deluge was good on this, talking about the US's strategic aims at the end of the First World War in pushing for disarmament. It wasn… (View Post)

There's a coral beach near Applecross and that whole region, if you get the weather right, feels downright tropical. Midges included! (View Post)

I think I mentioned before Ken Clarke's assessment of the situation post-1979 on Matt Forde's podcast. 'The Labour Party had split in two and both were ahead of us in the polls.' … (View Post)

There was a German mini-series called Charitè at War, about the Berlin hospital during the Second World War. One of the protagonists, a surgeon called Sauerbrook (a real guy, apparently, not sure how… (View Post)

There does seem to be a bit of a blind spot with Ed Miliband. I was reading in the Times last week (someone had left it about, I don't make a habit of it) about a protest over a solar farm at Bl… (View Post)