WhisperingOracle

Britain needs to rediscover the period in the eighteenth century when it was the intellectual centre of Europe, and finally shake off Victorian anti-intellectualism ; that"s what's allowed the l… (View Post)

The U.S. still holds many cards, not least in our defence infrastructure. You have to try to build Euro-Atlantic bridges, either for strategic reasons, or for delaying and smoothing the change to new… (View Post)

He's done about as well as any UK politician could in the last week, and certainly far better than the polarising Johnson would have. Whatever happens from here on in, he's also probably given Britai… (View Post)

Johnson is very far from the politician for the moment. He is toxic in Europe. (View Post)

And yet the alternative may have been even worse. The U.S. with no material interest in the Ukraine, and so no reason to maintain political interest. (View Post)