Recent statements by Trump’s regime in the USA concerning territorial claims on Greenland, backed now with threats of tariffs on all states that object to
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Fascism: the view from the USA in 1945
In this morning’s Letter from an American, Heather Cox Richardson said: Beginning in 1943, the War Department published a series of pamphlets for U.S. Army
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Is NATO about to collapse?
The United States is openly threatening to take Greenland, a self-governing territory linked to Denmark and therefore to NATO. That creates a crisis no one
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My question is, to where does this lead?
As the FT notes this morning: A UN-backed panel declared a famine in Gaza for the first time on Friday, in a damning assessment of
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Negative cycles of economic stupidity
The Bank of England cut its base rate by an insignificant 0.25% yesterday, now pitching it at 4%, which is still above the rate of
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Why is the EU planning roads fit for Russian tanks?
I noted this line in an email from the FT this morning: If Nato’s tanks were called to respond to an invasion by Moscow’s forces
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The mess we’re in
This is the latest from Led by Donkeys. It tells us what we already know. But what it also says is that we weren’t just
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Starmer’s no big deal
Starmer wants us to think he’s doing big foreign policy deals. He isn’t. He’s playing in the sandpit of international relations, and nothing is really
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Starmer’s insignificant deal
Starmer has done a deal with the EU. Only, of course, just like the deal with Trump, most of the detail has yet to be
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