Afternoon all from a thundery Singapore :) Fair to say the Chinese “live fire” exercises in the Tasman have alarmed both Australia and New Zealand and both Governments are using the incident as justi… (View Post)

The Little Scarlet jam is worth the journey alone. Extrapolating GE results from a swing in a local Council by-election is the sort of thing Liberal Democrats used to do. It shows the Stygian depths … (View Post)

Evening all from Singapore :) After 11 weeks in Kiwiland, a real change of pace and my first visit here in 19 years. Capitalism reigns supreme here but it works because society seems so well ordered.… (View Post)

When the Warsaw Pact collapsed in 1989 and the USSR soon after, the natural response was to assume the “threat” was over and there was no longer a need for large scale conventional forces to be based… (View Post)

There is a possibility we’ll see a China-Europe rapprochement which may be economically helpful to both sides. (View Post)