Day: 19 February 2015

Politicians do not like to talk about the fragile nature of the UK’s Economic Recovery. Yet it remains rooted in borrowing, asset inflation, housing costs which are out of control and a housing shortage which continues to grow. It is consumption based in a country which no longer makes things for shoppers to buy, so […]

Michael Fallon, the UK Defence Secretary, sees a Russian threat to destabilize Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, all members of Nato, but formerly part of the Soviet empire. He is correct to see danger, but his ‘blame the Russians’ mantra is not only wrong but increases the threat. The threat comes from ethnic Russians who make up […]