Arming For Peace | Defence Spending and GDP

This isn’t the blog I originally intended to write, but events over took me. Kier Starmer has returned relatively unscathed from his visit to the madhouse that is Trump’s White House. The headlines focused on Trump’s attention-seeking antics and Starmer’s nerdy calm. Not everyone was pleased.  A lot of people seem stunned that so far … Read more

How Russia defeated America | Trump and the Great Surrender

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