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The Secret of Unhappiness
The world has a problem, humans. Our minds do not function correctly setting our natural mechanisms into overdrive to protect us from things we do not see we are doing nearly all the time that convince us that we deserve to do evil or think it is being done to us. That Little Voice in …
The fate of Russia
If war is the normal state, the thing that the government is permanently adjusted to, then it follows that during times of peace a certain restlessness would pervade. Russia has been invaded so many times that it can not avoid a policy of self preservation above all else. The cost of controlling buffer states such …
UK Covid Strategy
The UK Covid strategy has been led by hesitancy and populism rather than an understanding of the long term effects of early action, creating space for the NHS to breathe. And now the ex-head of the Covid Strategy task force is asserting more nonsense suggesting that the mass vaccination programme should be abandoned in favour …
Nuclear Agreement
The members of the Permanent Security Council have agreed to not use Nuclear Weapons as there is no advantage from using them. One hopes that the other four countries that have nuclear weapons also do not use them. See Guardian article Five of the world’s most powerful nations have agreed that “a nuclear war cannot …
The Future
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 …
American-Qaeda
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 …
Conservative Decay
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 …
Nuclear Proliferation Illegal
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 …
US Election Outcome Calculator
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 …