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In: Brexit  — view comment
There are bigger problems than Brexit at the moment. All public services and a lot of sectors are in crisis, or collapsing. Brexit adds a bit to this,...
February 04, 2023 at 08:10
The Tory political tradition via Eton and Oxford is a hangover from the British imperialism of the 19th century. Hopefully it is now broken. The econo...
October 24, 2022 at 07:37
“The steal”. Will Boris’s support swing behind Mordaunt now.
October 24, 2022 at 07:29
Yes, my point is that this model is now broken. The Tory’s have succeeded in gaslighting the population since the establishment of the 1922 committee....
October 24, 2022 at 07:24
I’m working on the assumption that the Tory party are finished as a political force.
October 22, 2022 at 07:20
Could Boris be the British Berlusconi? In the country of Britaly.
October 22, 2022 at 07:19
Cambridge University is woke by comparison with Oxford. It’s simply the Chanels established by the political elites. Through which the chosen ones pas...
October 22, 2022 at 07:10
The most important development will be the end of the tradition of people from the privileged upper middle classes being groomed for a life in politic...
October 20, 2022 at 21:08
looks as though the Tory’s are descending into chaos. They are confident that they will coalesce behind a new PM within a week. While their party is s...
October 20, 2022 at 20:53
The Tory’s have done the right thing. It is imperative that they self destruct and retreat into electoral oblivion. So that we can rebuild our country...
October 16, 2022 at 08:14
In: Brexit  — view comment
As I see it, it wasn’t that expansion which caused the issue in the U.K. It was the total open door policy without any organised provision of housing,...
October 03, 2022 at 07:43
In: Brexit  — view comment
I would point out another dimension to the Brexit debate. That it was also about an existential crisis within the Conservative party. The majority of ...
October 02, 2022 at 17:25
Democracy is not yet dead in the U.K. https://twitter.com/BestForBritain/status/1529462147985588225?s=20&t=kw1TbxkbuUN8NXy8Ejk_GA
May 25, 2022 at 14:28
That’s not the half of it. I was brought up on Tom and Jerry, Banana Splits, Whacky Races, etc etc.
May 18, 2022 at 07:48
I sympathise with your proposition as a means to avoid destruction of the species. I suggest it is complicated when it comes to geopolitics and it is ...
May 15, 2022 at 08:08
Yes, this is why some kind of long term impasse is required. Such as a return to the Cold War. It appears that Russia(Putin’s regime) hasn’t moved on ...
May 13, 2022 at 07:05
Precisely and that is what Finland has done. It was literally on Putin’s whim that Russian troops entered Ukraine. Finland watched this move and then ...
May 12, 2022 at 20:53
Putin appears to be and wants to depict himself as taking advice on this from Lavrov. Lavrov is using weasel words with veiled threats. There was also...
May 12, 2022 at 16:56
That would be to conduct foreign policy by the whim of one’s adversary.
May 12, 2022 at 16:45
And Lavrov’s comments?
May 12, 2022 at 06:04
Oh, I forgot to mention that it’s move to defend against threats doesn’t necessarily include its threat to itself. I was talking about Putin, you know...
May 12, 2022 at 06:02
Yes, it is a defensive alliance. What it is defending against is all possible risks, not actual current risks. In reality there will be intelligence w...
May 11, 2022 at 19:57
The answer was implied in my response; “Like the infiltrators they sent into Donbas prior to the special military operation in 2014.” If Finland were ...
May 11, 2022 at 13:46
I’m not going down your rabbit hole.
May 11, 2022 at 08:27
Like the infiltrators they sent into Donbas prior to the special military operation in 2014.
May 11, 2022 at 08:18
Russia won’t invade Finland, it will send in infiltrators. Haven’t you realised yet that Russia knows that the planet is warming making their northern...
May 11, 2022 at 06:32
I’m not sure fear is the right word here. Protect from might be more appropriate. The lines are being redrawn between Europe and Russia and a new Cold...
May 11, 2022 at 06:27
Not in terms of hyper inflation. These trends will stabilise and the economies in question are quite healthy.
May 10, 2022 at 07:23
Good article, part of the inevitable covid shock. An economic Tsunami caused by a supply crisis. Those countries with a more libertarian/free market e...
May 10, 2022 at 01:22
Yes and we see Putin pronouncing the truth in Red square today. Somehow it brought Nazis to mind.
May 09, 2022 at 17:06
Yes, but I don’t see a route to hyper inflation in NATO countries.
May 09, 2022 at 15:55
In Putin’s head; “ I want to bring Ukraine under my control, I know I’ll send in infiltrators to agitate, destabilise the political situation and then...
May 09, 2022 at 08:53
Agreed, like the high inflation in Russia in the late 1990’s to bring it back on topic. When this happened in Russia whoever owned large assets which ...
May 09, 2022 at 07:10
Yes that’s probably why capital tries to influence policy. Also economic shock is problematic. I’ll leave it there.
May 09, 2022 at 07:06
I’m afraid Streetlight is right on this one. There’s one rule about capital and big money. It doesn’t matter what’s happening if it’s up, or down, inf...
May 08, 2022 at 18:03
Ahh, that’s alright then. Let’s just go back to the history written by the victors then. Nothing to see hear. Cromwell only did half the job, he gave ...
May 06, 2022 at 13:24
The Harrying of the North. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrying_of_the_North
May 06, 2022 at 09:57
What? the French imported the aristocracy to Britain and then took the guillotine to their own. You should have brought it across the channel while yo...
May 06, 2022 at 09:53
Agreed, although in Britain there was an acute case of the people who were treating the people in a brutal way were foreigners who invaded and they li...
May 06, 2022 at 07:07
Why of course, Putin is trying to re establish peace in the region. Talk that he’s desperately trying to build a legacy before he becomes to ill to co...
May 06, 2022 at 02:35
Ahh! this is the sentence I wrote which gave you that impression; “Who’s descendants, still totally in control of the population, did the global empir...
May 05, 2022 at 07:02
You miss the point, the point is class and privilege, not blood lines (I said institutions) The structure of the British class system was virtually as...
May 03, 2022 at 20:43
Yes, it would isolate Ukraine from the Black Sea. Leaving Ukraine to transport their grain and fertiliser exports through the EU via rail. It would pr...
May 03, 2022 at 13:53
EU is an instrument of US foreign policy? This is evidence of your wearing of anti US tinted glasses. This weakens your case. Regarding NATO, it has e...
May 03, 2022 at 10:38
Im not sure prominence is suitable phraseology for this crisis. Erection might be more apt.
May 02, 2022 at 17:59
I don’t see expansion of a US empire, there are the claims about corporate exploitation and and litigation by US companies around the world, the sprea...
May 02, 2022 at 07:08
I reiterate what I said to Streetlight earlier, “ I draw your attention back to the theatre of Eastern Europe. What is happening here is a reordering ...
May 01, 2022 at 13:30
I watched an excellent documentary about the effects of Fentanyl in social breakdown in St Louis last night. (U.K. Channel4, Unreported World). The so...
May 01, 2022 at 12:41
I don’t see evidence of this expansionist US imperialism that you allude to. The US abandoned their proxy wars with Russia before the end of the Cold ...
May 01, 2022 at 09:44
By progressive change, I mean live alongside their neighbours peacefully. With some kind of basic cooperation. Nothing else. It’s not a big ask. Weste...
May 01, 2022 at 06:31