If confidence and rhetoric were elements of GDP the UK would be flying high on Osborne’s Treasury regime. But at first sight today the chronic difficulty of over estimating growth and tax receipts and the under-estimate of costs of essential expenses remain problems unresolved. So, as predicted, his previous forecasts have again been proved wrong. Beyond […]
For the West with its catastrophic record of foreign policy failures, especially in the Middle East and Afghanistan, the Russian engagement in Syria and now the surprise partial withdrawal is an object lesson to watch. Russia has had bases in Syria more or less since the end of WWII and when it looked on the […]
The only cloud in the sky for the two front runners was over Trump with the loss to John Kasich, the no hope challenger who won his home state where he is governor. Clinton swept the board. Sanders battles on but it would take extraordinary events for him now to come through. Trump took Florida, until recently […]