The end of any year is a great time to reflect and predict but this year instead of trying to nail short term events to consequences, looking at the longer term is more interesting. The old forces, the old empire, the republic or the forces of evil are in their final decline to zero influence …
Another attack on the US Capitol, this time by a single terriorist in a car with a knife attacking police https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/02/us-capitol-lockdown bears remarkable similarities to the pointless but disturbing attack on the UK Houses of Parliament in 2017 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_London_Bridge_attack. Both were suicide missions, both involved an attack that was aimed at the police and both …
Trump, Bolsonaro and Johnson are undermining the political philosophy of conservatism. By seeking populism and a constituency of idiocy because 'public opinion' that follows the proportionality of a bell-shaped curve can match policy to mad conspiracy theories (philosophy for idiots) and manipulating people to capture votes with false promise, empty rhetoric and self-interest. Undermining conservatism …
50 countries have ratified a UN treaty declaring nuclear weapons illegal. This makes it international law from 22 January 2021. No nuclear nation that has used the threat of annihilation over other nations signed the treaty although negotiations between Russia and USA continue, while the Trump administration has written to the signatories saying that their …
Predict the result with the Electoral College built in, courtesy of the FT. Our prediction based on - well we are guessing - is Trump 234, Biden 304. Assumptions are no Democrat to Republican losses, the states that Trump won with small margins in 2016 return to Democrat, solid red states stay with Trump except …
The political choices faced by the UK at the last election: a socialist utopia that would cause taxes to increase and suppress innovation and progress while looking after those who were unable to look after themselves, or a slogan. The complex algorithms that the Left proposed were hundreds of pages of promises that were perceived …
America used to be the bastion of democracy and freedom. No more. The actions of the Republicans are not merely hypocrisy. It is not just politics. It is the destruction of the American ideal, the dream of freedom and progress that inspired the world of the twentieth century after Hitler and Stalin and Mao explored …
It is not the virus vs the economy. That ridiculous idea has guided the USA and UK into the most unnecessary deaths. Italy was hit without any real precedent except China who controlled the virus after trying to suppress information at first, they locked down severely and halted its inexorable exponential climb up graphs. Italy …
Do not listen to the poison. Donald Trump seeks to undermine your voice, sideline you as he flushes your part of the US economy away for the sole benefit of the very rich, pretending it will all be wonderful again if only you do not vote for the Democrats. How hollow the promise from the …
What is the difference between an Elephant and a Swan? Is this something that Trump think's he has aced, on his dementia test? Yes, he can point at an elephant but in his Axios interview with Jonathan Swan, he demonstrated that he is prepared to filter statistics to tell a story to show how good …