
A newsletter devoted not to polemic, but to trying to make sense of today's world.
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I’m reliably informed that there are people in Washington and other western capitals who were “surprised” by the ineffectiveness of the recent US/Israeli campaign against Iran, and by the effective surrender of the US as demonstrated in the...
Last week’s essay on the importance of psychological factors in international politics sparked a lot of interest and some debate, but I was conscious that, once again, I had been obliged to skate over the surface of many important subjects,...
Last week, we discussed the huge gulf that exists between the thinking of the political class and its parasites in the Professional and Managerial Caste (PMC) on the one hand, and the attitudes and desires of ordinary people on the other. T...
At the end of the Second World War, George Orwell recorded several times in letters and in articles his feeling that the British people had seemed curiously happier during the War, than in the immediate past. Now of course Orwell did not me...
Democracy, we read these days, is under threat from people like you and me. Or at least something labelled “Democracy;” whether it’s defined as an ideology, a series of procedures, or just not really defined at all, is under threat from peo...
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