Month: March 2017

I wrote the following as two separate responses to Tarheel Dem’s recent post Our Current Silliness. Taken together they sketch out a sadly dystopian future for the whole human race if we do not come up with a better...

Molenbeek-based Muslim calls for “Jihad of Love” to counter terrorism Mohamed El Bachiri, who lost his wife Loubna in the Maalbeek metro station during the 22 March terror attacks, has launched an emotional appeal to...

I guess there’s a theory that things may have gone better in Afghanistan if the coalition of troops that invaded the country in 2001 hadn’t become distracted and diluted by the decision to invade Iraq. We’ll...

For the second time in a few days, Theresa May’s government has suffered a defeat in a House of Lords vote.  Their Lordships are concerned not to give the Government a free hand to negotiate whatever deal it sees fit...

One of the last things I wrote before the election was on how third parties tend to collapse before elections.  It is something that has injected volatility late in elections before, and in retrospect I have should have...