Indeed it’s totally parochial when people calling talking about “a weak pound”. It’s fed induced dollar strength that is causing a global liquidity crisis. To name three, Egypt, Pakistan and Ghana ha… (View Post)

Yes we all know that the word “disaster” is the prevalent one used in describing Truss. What’s still not clear to me is exactly why. I’ll speculate. I think Truss has inadvertently tapped into sub co… (View Post)

I keep meeting people in real life who should on paper be predisposed to Truss who think she’ll be “a disaster”. Some of these are snap judgements based on a snatched few mins of observation during t… (View Post)

Kherson news blackout continues. In the void are Russians on telegram talking about the destruction of the Ukrainian offensive force. Meanwhile noises the other way that Russian forces are now trying… (View Post)

What follows Putin? Some numbers. In 2020 Russia’s male population aged 20-39 was 15.4% the national total, or about 22 million, which is an imperfect but reasonable proxy of rough pool for fighting.… (View Post)