I have an article in The National this morning that I open by saying: IT is my wife’s belief that, as a man of a
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On the brink of disaster
It could be argued that I have said all that is necessary about my fear concerning the attack that Trump is threatening on Iran, but
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The modern age of unreason
Is the Enlightenment being reversed? Are we going backwards in our thinking? Will Trump take us back to the Stone Age, as he threatens, in
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The EU’s inappropriate response to the coming economic crisis
The Financial Times has reported that EU officials are urging governments to prevent member states from offering support to households and businesses in response to the latest
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Have economists got Adam Smith completely wrong?
Neoliberalism claims Adam Smith as its founding father, but that claim is built on a lie. Smith’s first great work, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759),
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Will Starmer succeed in delivering fascism?
If my last post was not depressing enough, consider these poll findings from Lord Ashcroft: The forecast is very clear. We are facing a Tory
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We are facing the most significant days and weeks in world history since 1945
I have spent rather too much of Sunday pondering upon “what if?” questions. The sense of anxiety that I feel, which I explored in my
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There is a madman in the White House and our government is AWOL
I just posted this on X: I fear Trump will reveal his true level of inanity at the cost to the world, and we’re doing
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If you’re not worried now, when might you ever be?
Trump posted this on his social media account yesterday afternoon: What to think about that? As I suggested in a post yesterday, there must have
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