Mystifying to me that there’s anyone who still gives a shit about Brexit. (View Post)

In autumn 2022 I got to sleep at night by remembering that there was a chain of command in the Russian armed forces and no magical red button in Putin’s downstairs khazi. But really it’s a fiction is… (View Post)

The Thurs/Fri was apparently taken out of context and actually referred to last Thursday / Friday. “When you learn the detail of what went down omg it was wild” etc… Of note, the US airbase in Qatar … (View Post)

The typical complaint against the death penalty is that there’s no prospect of correcting miscarriages of justice after sentencing. Seems to me the death penalty is playing at the edges compared with… (View Post)

On Iran. Surely the more likely precedent here is neither Iraq nor Cambodia. But Libya. It would not be great for anyone in Europe wanting less immigration. Or China, which relies upon its stable oil… (View Post)