Most countries that collapse, or fall into violence or civil war or similar trauma don't do so overnight. The process usually takes years or even decades to come about. Some crisis may precipitate it… (View Post)

The question is wrongly framed. It's not about 'not running'; it's about 'stopping running'. I don't think Trump is anything like a slam-dunk win. The US economy is performing fairly strongly and Tru… (View Post)

It is. It's also worse than Johnson hiding in a fridge. It's worse than May's robot answers. It's worse than Miliband's 'hell yes!'. It's so spectacularly unempathetic that it's hard to know what he … (View Post)

On topic, yes. Anyone who thinks otherwise is in cloud-cuckoo land. Not only is he going to run again, he *is* running again. The race has been live for months now, votes are already being cast, fili… (View Post)

And the US Congress could easily have been prompted into a question of whether it should support Israel or Ukraine, as if it's an either-or. It still might be. Breaking off US support for Ukraine is … (View Post)