Having outlined the strategic dangers involved in Part I of the new Entente Cordiale, I should now point out some of the dreadful tactical flaws in its proposed construction.
It is important to bear in mind the federal goal...
As the referendum in 2016 unfolded accusations, false promises, fake estimates shot backwards & forwards, fired from both sides, but with a clear majority of them spinning from the government side. All the more potentially powerful as the provenance...
Last year I outlined my unease at the prospect of a TTIP agreement, simplistically a trade bloc deal between America and the EU. The concept was unpopular with many but, as I wrote at the time, probably not for...
In the past hundred years, the annual service at the cenotaph has shown our sad leaders and politicians of every hue stand with heads bowed in prayer to honour our war dead. Those politicians more often than not wore...
They Voted Leave
The BREXIT referendum is over, more emotion than information sadly and much nonsense talked about economics, so a few pointers to hopefully throw some light where none has been hitherto. Let us look at some numbers but...
Fascism is a very definitive political creed and not without modest pre-war success. Political essayists rarely try and post-rationalise this political dogma by interpreting what it actually was. Formed and practised for twenty years in pre-war Italy by Benito...
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is a Figment of the State’s Imagination
You draw up your chair, you switch on the telly and tune into the news. It is all very authoritative, delivered in a manner that brooks no contradiction. Fact...
I remember only too well when I was a budding City slicker, bright eyed and bushy tailed, a mop of blond hair, keen to please,looking forward expectantly to a long holiday weekend of a late Friday afternoon, sun streaming...
There has been much debate about the EU army, most of it whether it is needed or not. This is all irrelevant as the EU project is working towards a centralised state with a single currency, tax policy and...
In labeling NATO a dangerous “anacronym” the general has chosen the perfect title for his timely essay pointing out that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has morphed from a strictly defensive pact, governed by tightly worded treaty terms, into...
