PS btw I like the "Eta" doubletake in your added comment (View Post)

Argentina otoh is about to exploit oodles of shale gas, from what I read …plus a bonanza in lithium mining. What with closing down 16 government departments and dollarization to boot, this is one to … (View Post)

RiP Alistair Darling. Now all my Edinburgh New Labour neighbours have passed away - John Smith, Robin Cook and now Alistair Darling. I knew them all in the streets in the newsagents in the surgeries.… (View Post)

 As Greek pm Kyriakos Mitsotakis pointed out on Kuenssberg, they are the Parthenon marbles. Only we know them as the Elgin marbles. The best argument for Lord Elgin's looting was that they needed to … (View Post)

Or even obliged (View Post)