He's on nobody's side but his own. Regardless of the geopolitical calculus, the strategy and tactics, the precise amount of aid, the red lines, the risk appetite, every US president we'… (View Post)

You can't be that far from Deptford - one of the many SOTR places I lived before making the big move north in 1993. (View Post)

Yes that's the downside of making that distinction in the books. (View Post)

I'd say Johnson's was bigger. Certainly more spectacular. With Brown his CoEship has taken a hit but his PMship has gone the other way. There's real and lasting respect now for how he … (View Post)

They couldn't break that pledge. The argument with more legs is whether they should have made it. I understand why they did whilst wishing they hadn't. (View Post)