I joined the County of London Yeomanry in 1967, a very callow youth indeed but many of the senior NCOs were Korean veterans. Most national servicemen at the time, Royal Ulster Rifles, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, Gloucesters, (Glorious Glosters) gunners,...
I tried to explain the role of money in an earlier article, I now make an effort to explain what the ECB is up to. Of course that is no different to what any other central bank is up...
With hysterical MSM reaction to anything Trump I crunched the numbers independently & pondered - how was Trump's economic record?
In 2016 I was a Trump supporter. This was based on his manifesto from...
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...
Many years ago now, or so it seems, at the height of the Cold War my commanding officer had the foresight to enrol some of his junior officers on a Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst post graduate Soviet Studies course...
One of the great historical myths is the American Civil War was fought to abolish slavery. Serious historians know it was neither a civil war, nor was it fought to emancipate slaves. A civil war is about...
An excellent email from a follower on the shambles.***
Rt Hon Philip Dunne MP
Dear Philip,In regards to the recent events in Afghanistan, initiated by the reckless actions of the...
The great irony of 2018 is the world is a more dangerous place than it was before the collapse of the Soviet Union. How can this be so?
The amazing paradox is when the West faced the Soviet Union across...
What is a ‘common currency’?
It is frustrating to hear Eurosceptics argue that the common currency is the source of Europe’s woes, there are indeed many causes but the euro is not one of them. I have already written a...
Greece has been adopted as a cause célèbre by euro sceptics who have portrayed the debt situation as an example of EU and ECB bullying, an assault on democracy and the Greek people. This is quite natural, politics is...
