There was a time when I thought my early assessment of Boris as a clown and a liar was too harsh. I began to to see beneath the bravado an astute politician who saw the injustice of Thatcherism being retained as a political blueprint, when times and people had changed. Who shifted the Tory party […]
This blog has always predicted that in the end the West’s well meaning efforts to bring Afghanistan into the modern world would fail, not least because of the utter corruption of the so called democratic structures which NATO propped up for far too long. The political reluctance of the West to deal with the obvious […]
In the commentary following what many found a surprising decision by the Bank of England not to raise interest rates yet, one or two economists wondered out loud whether central banks are the right institutions to be taking decisions which have such far reaching effects on the lives of ordinary people. It is not very […]