The Digital Trap: How Misinformation Targets People Like Us Writing this blog, I’m making some assumptions about my readers—primarily graduates, middle class, aged between 45 and 65, and self-identifying as well-educated. I hope what I’m about to say doesn’t upset too many of you. Hate, distrust, and disinformation designed to create political divisions have proliferated … Read more
How easy is it to cut the size of Government? The original strapline for my blog right at the start was “small business is good, big government is bad”. Part of my dislike of big government comes from my own experiences as a Civil Servant. This gave rise to Chadwick’s laws of public finance and … Read more
With Donald Trump heading back to the White House all of my blogs on Trump and the last 8 years of US politics are available for Kindle:
A few weeks ago I wrote a blog (link below) with a bleak view of America’s future. Some people have asked me whether I think that Trump is America’s Putin. A dictator in all but name. For what it is worth I think that America’s Putin is still to reveal themselves, although Musk, Vane and … Read more
Russia has bided it’s time and has won a famous victory. The democratic revival is over and autocracy is victorious. The re-election of Trump is their final triumph There are 3 great inflection points in post war history: the creation of the rules based international order, NATO and the United Nations in the 1940s. … Read more
Whatever happens at the ballot box Trump will declare victory in the early hours of Wednesday morning UK time, with huge numbers of votes still to be counted. It is hard to see how violent protests can be avoided. Americans need to brace themselves for what happens next. By any objective analysis the Trump campaign … Read more
With the Democrat Convention in town this week the shape of the next US election becomes clearer. For a long time I was convinced of 2 things about the next US presidential election: Biden wouldn’t be the candidate; and whichever party dumped their candidate before the election would get a boost, possibly big enough to … Read more
JD Vance is the latest in a series of awful Republican VP picks. Dan Quayle who couldn’t spell potato, Sarah Palin who thought she could see Russia from her bedroom window. Vance looks just as daft as them, if not more so. He’s not even called JD Vance, he is Jonathan David Hamel, if you … Read more
