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 […]
Everybody is shocked at the wave of street killings in London so far in 2018. The natural reaction is to find a single cause and someone or something to blame; too little stop and search, too few police on the streets and so on. The truth is more complex than the soundbite can articulate. Eight […]
There is much about the Salisbury poisoning which does not make sense to the average onlooker, but the British people have for the most part accepted the line that the Russians are behind the assault and, in the case of Boris Johnson, that not just the Russian State, but Putin directly, had ordered the attack. […]
Antisemitism This blog is not antisemitic and does not support antisemitism in any form and especially not if it can be seen to be institutional. But it cannot see how attending a Jewish function, run by Orthodox Jews, with a Rabbi present can be said to be antisemitic. This blog has always favoured a Palestinian […]