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John Kerry has arrived in London to have talks with Philip Hammond in a weird atmosphere in which words like land grab and craven are used to describe the Russians. This blog has always held the Kiev government and its supporters who toppled the previous government a year ago responsible for the chaos now engulfing […]

Set in the mid nineteen nineties, this fast moving thriller lifts the curtain on sex, sleaze and corruption in high places as the long reign of the government totters to an end, following the ousting of the iconic Margaret Thatcher. Downfall in Downing Street catches the mood of those times with a host of fictional […]

Both of them. The new Greek government was not ready to default and exit the euro, because it knows that while it has full backing to confront the EU over its bailout terms and the failed austerity programme, it does not have a majority to exit the eurozone. Yet. But if the demands are too steep that […]

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 […]

Germany is overplaying its hand, not for the first time in its turbulent history, and will start to pay a price. Like a calvinist pastor it lectures on the morality of sticking to agreements, paying debts and reforming wayward habits. Very good as a lecture or a sermon. But nonsense when it flies in the face of […]

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 […]

BBC News – Ukraine: UK and EU ‘badly misread’ Russia Committee chairman Lord Tugendhat said: “The lack of robust analytical capacity, in both the UK and the EU, effectively led to a catastrophic misreading of the mood in the run-up to the crisis.” The above is taken from the BBC news website and refers to […]

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 […]