This is an extraordinary development. I cannot pretend to be at all knowledgeable about Uber but I do know its service has transformed the lives of millions of Londoners, making point to point travel safe, more convenient and a good deal cheaper. Because it uses an app and works via your smart phone, it is […]
This Blog will not comment in detail yet on May’s much trumpeted speech. Except to say this. Brexiteers regard Britain’s relationship with the EU as primarily about trade. European politics, outside security issues, are something to be shot of. The problem is that EU sees the political union and its associated free movements as an […]
It is not possible to govern a country in easy times with a party split into two opposing forces so that it is both government and opposition, all sitting round the Cabinet table. Even if they are singing like birds. If times are critical, as they are now, to attempt it and place at risk […]
On September 4th this Blog posted a piece on North Korea which ended with this: Unless the United States manages to convince North Korea that the next time it fires a rocket or tests a nuclear bomb it will be attacked and wiped out. If that message sinks home, as in Kennedy at Cuba, talks […]
Interest rates are the tiller of an economy. They steer the course set by the democratic government tasked with guiding the national financial well being. The helm was handed to the Bank of England twenty years ago. For a while it steered a steady course with rises and falls according to need, guided only by […]
In a word mischief. He still imagines that he can somehow wind up leader of the Tory party and Prime Minister. Had he kept out of May’s cabinet he might very well have done so. But he took on the job of Foreign Secretary and blew whatever reputation he had, depending on your perspective of […]
North Korea’s declaration that it only wants military equilibrium with the USA and a peace treaty with the South, so as to guarantee the survival of their country, is a game changer from the blood curdling threats of annihilation of American cities of recent times. Already there are signs that both Russia and China, while […]
There is a lot of trailing for the scheduled speech from Theresa May in Florence next week. She is planning to say things about Brexit and the stalled negotiations which, so it is said, will change the game. Well perhaps, but since the contents are not yet agreed either with May or the Brexiteers in her […]
A question mark now hangs over the revered leader of the democratic segment of Myanmar’s government. Once lauded worldwide, her lack of condemnation of the military cleansing operation, driving hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas to flee into Bangladesh, has caused shock across the world and brought down upon her serious questions about how good a […]
So great is the preoccupation with the almost hopeless muddle which Brexit has become, with its scale and complexity far beyond the comprehension of its promoters, that other potentially more threatening economic problems are going on unheeded. The daily diet of bad news, today it is a rise in homelessness, has become the accepted norm, […]