You too easily discount what I now see as the base case. The near collapse of the Russian military machine and borders returning more or less to pre-2014. The difference with this war and most is the… (View Post)

I used to travel all over China to the bits that no tourist would ever want to visit. I’d stare out the window of whatever moving vehicle I was in and wonder how long you could debase the natural env… (View Post)

This is a big problem and not just for food. The Yangtze is a key industrial highway for raw materials and finished goods, and has hydropower stations with a total of 190Gb of nameplate capacity. Tha… (View Post)

Sunak has a bloody cheek quite frankly. He’s campaigning as though someone else has been Chancellor these past years. He’d be wise to take a period of quiet reflection. (View Post)

. That’s not what it was about. It was a carefully calibrated psychological trigger to keep people afraid so they didn’t forget there was a pandemic on. The Belgians admitted as much. The UK’s mask m… (View Post)