Regarding climate change, I am not one of those people who thinks there’s little point in us decarbonising because we make little difference. Indeed as others have argued there is great economic valu… (View Post)

UK politicians have a particular habit of excessively handwringing and wailing “we must do something” every time an international crisis erupts, without ever it seems to me fully comprehending that W… (View Post)

Israel has been existentially menaced from the moment of its creation. It has hostile actors on all sides. The way to peace and its lasting security is hideously complex, but to me it is far from cle… (View Post)

The government made mistakes with COVID. Any government would have done. They were held to account in the media and by the opposition for their actions, sometimes I think the positions taken were unf… (View Post)

A lot of people seem to think it’s a basic human right to have a mortgage free home by the age of 50 no matter what terms you signed up for. If we were more sensible with the way we treated inherited… (View Post)