The fanatical Iranian regime has been a threat to world peace for decades. Apart from murdering its own people it has exported and funded terrorism throughout the world. As with all fanatical religious and political movements it sees itself as the sole arbiter of people's thoughts and lives. To not believe or disobey is met by incarceration or deat...
Recent events have made me think of two quotes from the past, Harold Wilson's "A week is a long time in politics", and "The World turned upside down" from an English ballad of the English Civil War. There are many reasons why I consistently supported Trump's reelection: the war on waste, the reining in of the various bureaucratic groups who overrod...
The Ukraine war drags on. It nearly ended in 2022, but the adversaries thought better of anything so untidy as a peace treaty. Since then, thousands of lives have been lost in an internecine struggle where intransigence has become policy and revenge a war aim. Montgomery cautioned the USA in the 1960s that its war in Vietnam was "insane" because it...
