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  • The basket case and the anarcho-economist

    It’s strange that politicians are there to tell you how brilliant they are during the boom years, but have excuses for all the other years that economies have struggled. But the boom years themselves are manufactured by those same politicians when they get into power. Millei of Argentina, has to a degree come to the conclusion…

  • While the Liberals put a smile on the face of the British people… the others are serious.

    So the liberals have spent the first week charming the British public with their leaders antics. Falling off paddle boards, going down water slides and running a boat past Richi Sunak, while he is knee deep in a media blitz. But the serious politicians have not had it easy, Richi Sunak’s exit sign and Titanic…

  • NATO, Europe and the question of Ukraine

    It is strange that when a country invades part of your territory, you are not allowed to attack the supply line that is enabling the attacking power to invade your territory in the first place. Ukraine is in this position, a position of weakness because it cannot attack Russia’s supply lines with the Western weapons…

  • ICC, what went wrong for Netanyahu

    Its hard to feel sorry for Netanyahu, he was warned repeatedly that Israel was breaking International Law, but did not do anything to manage the events happening in the West Bank or Gaza. You would expect a but at this point, but there isn’t one. The international community had warned Israel in a thousand different…

  • The lost voices of the dispossessed

    Everyday arguments meant that politicians popularised arguments, which they pushed through by deposing those who could not communicate in the same manner as the law makers. Laws became entrenched by government edicts and the main pusher of these arguments were broadcasters -especially the BBC, which moved from being a News outlet into being a great…

  • Sudan – the forgotten war

    There is a scenario that between 500,000 and 1 million Sudanese will die of starvation or disease in Sudan. Food prices have increased by up to 83% because farmers have not been able to gather the harvest. The fighting has moved from the centre of Khartoum to the province of Gezira the breadbasket of Sudan and is proving…