As the Guardian reported yesterday: The US will abandon its efforts “within days” to broker a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine unless there are
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The UK does not need a trade deal with Trump
According to Washington and London, a US/UK trade deal is coming soon. It is bound to represent a massive loss of freedom for the UK.
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The contemptuous games that Labour plays
As The Guardian notes this morning: Ministers are scrambling to avoid a damaging rebellion this summer when MPs vote on controversial cuts to disability benefit
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Is Trump about to end democracy in the USA?
Will Trump invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 to enforce his rule, via a militia if need be, ending democracy in the USA in the
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Something to look forward to
The Guardian reports this morning that: Donald Trump has said he is expecting to travel to to the UK in September for his second state
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The curse of pleonexia
Wikipedia explains the word pleonexia like this: Pleonexia, sometimes called pleonexy, originating from the Greek πλεονεξία, is a philosophical concept which roughly corresponds to greed, covetousness, or avarice, and
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We are living in a fucked up world
As the Guardian notes: A third of school staff have seen “physical underdevelopment” in students due to poverty, with schools in England stretching their budgets
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Will the US have abandoned any suggestion that it’s a democracy by next week?
I rarely wake up not worried these days. The threat of fascism is too significant not to do so. I think it is getting very
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Signs of recession
The FT has noted: British advertisers have cut their budgets for the first time in four years as the prospect of a trade war hit
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