In terms of actual outcome I’m not clear how Trump has actually been any worse than any US administration of the last 20 years on global warming. They’ve all been a joke. It’s not politicians that ar… (View Post)

I did raise this in the context of what is generally a relatively favourable (and unquestionably quite benign) foreign policy record. To liberally paraphrase, the Brain Trust here conclude that only … (View Post)

Nice casual reference to Spanish Flu there and the unspoken spectre of 50 million deaths. When we get to the spring and we haven’t suffered a health catastrophe, are people finally going to put this … (View Post)

There’s an uncomfortable possibility that the belated wide scale lockdown didn’t much alter the number of covid deaths, or at least the aggregate number of deaths given how many non covid deaths it c… (View Post)

On the previous thread there was some argument about what a disaster Trump has been for the world and how it’s unthinkable he can continue. Talking about his deeds rather than words, is it not fair t… (View Post)