The culture wars won't help, though. In the long run, they're destroying Britain as they're wrecking America, and Johnson has a huge amount, if not necessarily all, of the responsibili… (View Post)

Maximising their appeal there is one way of describing it ; covering up for their vacuum of economic appeal there would be another. (View Post)

In terms of intellectual distinction of the last forty years, I would say possibly : Heseltine Brown Foot Grieve Willetts Cook (View Post)

There was an emergent idea for a West European defence force, but much as later, the UK effectively vetoed it. Once the the UK and France had made diplomatic representations to the Americans about al… (View Post)

Sticking to the nineteenth-century rulebook, Britain was extremely wary of pooling resources with Continental forces. It would have required both greater trust of the Continent, and greater willingne… (View Post)