The US self-image is, or was, of protecting the rules-base order, but there's quite a lot of truth in this. The invasion of Iraq, for instance, sought the figleaf of a rules-based order via its … (View Post)

If Trump benefits from the disaster he laid for Biden in Afghanistan it will be the ultimate travesty. (View Post)

Yes, and it doesn't have to be in the EU, although Britain hasn't helped itself and others by leaving it. (View Post)

Europe is well capable of filling some of the gap, if it wants to, and that's also the only arena where Britain will have anything approaching independent input. Britain, France and Germany in c… (View Post)

Tugendhat strikes me very much as the pre-Borisite Tory party, and pre-Brexiters. He has something in common with figures such as Grieve, Clarke and Heseltine. (View Post)