UK underperformance kicked in straight after the referendum. Did it ? UK 2016 2.2% 2017 3.0% 2018 1.6% 2019 1.3% France 2016 1.1% 2017 2.3% 2018 1.9% 2019 1.8% Germany 2016 2.2% 2017 2.8% 2018 1.1% 2… (View Post)

It requires hard work, attention to detail, proper planning and continuous determination to successfully change a government strategy. Not things associated with recent governments. (View Post)

So does that apply to Trump's win in 2024 ? One pattern that does appear time and time again is that governments lose when enough people think they have failed. (View Post)

One of the mysteries has been why so many right wingers have been pro-Putin. Its not as if they didn't know that an expansionist, militarised, authoritarian Russia was a threat to their own coun… (View Post)

It does make me wonder if the Soviet Union would have done better if it had spent a miniscule fraction of its military spending on instead bribing western politicians. Perhaps they tried to but we ha… (View Post)