Four crises are converging on the world’s food supply. War has closed the Strait of Hormuz. Extreme heat is cutting crop yields. The strongest El
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The crises to come
As I have feared, forecast and written about, the price of oil is beginning to rise significantly, as this chart from the Financial Times shows:
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Labour is ignoring the evidence on healthy life expectancy
The Financial Times is reporting today that key Labour MPs are softening their opposition to another round of welfare cuts. This comes in the same
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The dinosaurs might be out this week, but their era has passed
Let’s ignore the fact that the UK monarchy is less popular now than it has probably ever been. Let’s ignore the fact that it is
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Labour’s toxic racism
I note this from this morning’s National newspaper in Scotland: NEW research has suggested that the UK Government’s planned changes to immigration and settlement rules risk
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Clear thinking, peaceful sanctions, and deliberate messaging are required no
There is news as I write this morning that Donald Trump might have been subject to a shooting incident last night, but the details are unclear,
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Israel is a rogue state
Israel is a rogue state. Its wars in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, and Iran have no justification in international law. More than 70,000 civilians
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Is the UK past its sell by date?
It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that a Prime Minister in office beyond their use-by date fails to recognise that fact, and has to be
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Football sanctions are required, but not on Iran
The FT reported this morning that: A top envoy to President Donald Trump has asked Fifa to replace Iran with Italy in the upcoming World
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