Trump takes pride in the fact that he keeps his campaign promises. This is an important attraction to US voters fed up with electing somebody who then does not deliver as expected. So it should come as no surprise that with a hate filled castigation of the Islamic Republic which governs Iran, he yesterday scrapped […]
The government is rapidly losing control of its own agenda for Brexit. The EU negotiators are perplexed as they wait for a proposal from the UK which at least stands a chance of gaining approval from the 26 countries remaining in the Union. So far there has been aspiration and platitudes but absolutely no workable […]
There is a good deal of nonsense being talked about the local elections. So here are some simple truths to put your thinking straight. First, referring to where political parties are supposed to be at this time in the political cycle is the stuff of the out of date, out of touch and out of […]
A house divided against itself cannot stand. This is one of Lincoln’s enduring sayings. Lincoln and Churchill are perhaps the most often quoted politicians, because they said complicated things simply and promoted challenges which had to be faced. Our present class of politicians talk nonsense most of the time. They have a phobia about confronting […]
The intelligence coup declared by the Israeli prime minister is very unimpressive, because all of this evidence was known to exist, had been inspected and was one of the drivers for the nuclear deal Mr. Netanyahu is trying to destroy. If these documents are really a revelation upon which the hinge of history swings, what […]
An influential think tank considers that the Bank of England is headed for trouble when the next financial crisis hits. It considers interest rates have been left much too low for far too long and when problems in the economy next loom, it will have no meaningful room for bosting the economy by lowering them. […]
We have in power a bunch of greenhorn politicians when it comes to foreign affairs, backed by a foreign office which, at least until recently, wore ignorance of Russia, what it means and how it thinks, as a badge of honour. But we have to talk to the Kremlin and that means talking to Putin. […]
The more this saga unfolds, the worse it gets. What is so offensive is the simple truth that for the most part those affected by the astonishing requirement after a lifetime of loyal citizenship in what they thought was their country to prove how they got here, are among the least well off and most […]
We know the argument. Only the wise government knows what to do. Because it has access to the ‘intelligence’. So we are clueless, have no say and have to live with the consequences. That includes our elected representatives in the House of Commons. We have something called the Royal Prerogative. Ooh how clever. And how […]
There is an argument, put forward by the government and agreed with France and the US, that if you bomb a few helicopters and a factory or two, this will be a price which the Assad regime will not want to pay again, so it will not use chemical weapons in future. Really? The strategic […]