I’m indebted to bevin. Below my September 11 post on a former Swiss colonel, he alerted me to the likelihood that the Black Hole of Calcutta – its iconic status in that weighty leger of tales from the British Raj … Read More »
Over the decades since Reagan and Thatcher, Western economies have come to be dominated by finance, insurance and real estate (FIRE) sectors which, though highly profitable, create little new value. Rather these sectors, misleadingly counted as adding to GDP, recycle … Read More »
Dmitry Trenin On September 8, RT (formerly Russia Today) published a piece by Dmitry Trenin, whose wiki page lists him as: A member of Russia’s Foreign and Defence Policy Council. He was the director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, a … Read More »
I say, I say – did you hear the one about Charles opening a leisure centre in Scunthorpe? On the big day, the streets were lined with scunners eager to catch sight of the man yet to be king. Finally … Read More »
Poacher turned gamekeeper Paul Mason boasted, in a March 12 email featured in my post on the persecution of Tim Hayward, of having “debunked” gamekeeper turned poacher Jacques Baud’s analyses of the conflict in Ukraine. Jacques Baud (left) and Paul … Read More »
I’m a huge fan of Caitlin Johnstone’s wittily penetrative and deceptively simple ways of showing how insane a world run by and for a tiny elite truly is, when what she is up against are systems of opinion manufacture controlled … Read More »
Outside Buckingham Palace yesterday I’ve never been one for claiming psychic powers but try this for size. Early afternoon yesterday the thought occurred, courtesy one of those random associative chains the mind’s humdrum chatter churns out 24/7, that Prince Philip … Read More »
It’s coming from the silence on the dock of the bay From the brave, the bold, the battered heart of Chevrolet Democracy is coming to the U.S.A. Leonard Cohen Those who wrote trade deals to profit from unemployment and underemployment … Read More »
Good question. And while we’re asking it, what about the steel mills too? What worries American diplomats is that Germany, other NATO nations and countries along the Belt and Road route understand the gains that can be made by opening … Read More »
Mrs Thatcher said she could “do business with him”. Western liberals – unlike the citizens of a USSR about to be plunged into a living nightmare – had the kind of love affair with him which today finds echo in … Read More »