I think that makes sense. It seems that the US wants to carve up the Arctic for oil, gas, and mineral extraction, striking some sort of deal with Russia, and to boost their territorial claim by takin… (View Post)

We had no trouble magicing money out of thin air for Covid. We face a potentially worse threat than that. We need to go a hell of a lot faster than what Starmer was apparently planning for. (View Post)

The progress that China has made is really quite incredible. In semiconductors, automotive, aerospace and other areas like renewable energy, China is gaining ground so quickly that unless something c… (View Post)

. Do we even have enough police for the likely protests? (View Post)

Even more pertinently Trump is rumoured to be about to dimiss a whole load of senior military officers, who are presumably in many cases the very people who brief him and Vance on the state of play i… (View Post)