Depends on if you think this is a worse mess than he inherited. Personally I think we’re seeing a rare piece of expert realpolitik from this government. It’s pretty plain that the EU chose to weaponi… (View Post)

Charles may not be an academic or the world’s best empath. But he does have an uncanny knack for big picture thinking and the courage to say things well ahead of them becoming fashionable perspective… (View Post)

“It's all right. It's quite all right, really. She's having a rest. We'll be going on soon.” By a mile the most moving and powerfully understated delivery of a line of dialogue in… (View Post)

I think some people assume that events from science fiction are made up and can’t ever happen because they are fiction, particularly the bad events. Scifi writers really are just futurists and as a g… (View Post)

Indeed. CO2 rich Venus is hotter than Mercury despite being further away from the sun, and all the solar flares long beloved of the anti global warming crew. Sure, it’s hard to tease out exact impact… (View Post)