From Tone

I’ve come across an interesting concept which may be useful in understanding lots of different things.

I’ve just read a phenomenally interesting book, one of those rare books that really reshapes one’s view of the world and of history.

Many Left Liberal commentators have struggled to understand Islamism or explain the violence and hostility of the Jihadists and Islamist terrorism.

Please note – very important – nothing I am about to say is meant to endorse, support or oppose anything or anyone.

I recently read ‘Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Rivalry That Unravelled the Middle East’ by Kim Ghattas which I consider to be one of the most insightful and informative books about Islam, Islamism and the middle east that I have come across.

The Volcker Shock was a great event in the late 1970s and early 1980s which reshaped the world and marked the decisive end to the post war period.

‘God Save the King!”

Putin was a child of the 1990s Russian collapse.

The U.N. predicts disaster if climate change is not stopped.

If you are interested in, alarmed by, or politically engaged with the question of climate change then you really should watch this video.

Thirty thousand plus attendees are about to descend on Glasgow for the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26).

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As the graph below shows approval of Trump after the violence at the Capitol still remains strong at around 40%.

Looking at the political situation in the US and trying answer the question “what is to be done?”

Since the beginning of the surge in government spending in the UK caused by the Corona virus most of the new bonds issued to pay for all the deficit spending has ended up being bought up by the central bank.

Former climate activist Michael Shellenberger has condemned alarmists for “terrorising school children” with false claims that the world is about to end.

The Covid recession will be asymmetrical in the EU.

The culture wars are bad for the Left and good for the Right, and the reasons are very clear after reading the report published last week by ‘The UK in a Changing Europe’ think tank entitled “Mind the values gap – the social and economic values of MPs, pa…

Why are Eurobonds so difficult?

In the post 2008 recession the global economy was significantly reflated by a huge credit boost in China which was spent on a truly gigantic investment program.

This is an extraordinary global and national crisis.

I voted Remain in the referendum not because I loved the EU but because I thought the UK outside the EU would produce sub-optimal economic results.

A wider context to Labour’s defeat, the map below shows the weighted share of the vote for Western European social democratic parties since 1950.

In the light of its historic defeat last week it’s worth asking “what is the Labour Party for?”

The slogan ‘For the Many not the Few” looked for a while as if it was a winning popular campaigning position.

These maps show the staggering change in the pattern of voting by constituency between 1997 and 2019.

Prior to the referendum the tectonic plates of British politics had been shifting for a long time.

Italy is the weak link in the eurozone system.

Almost fifty years ago in my late teens I discovered that the world was doomed and that an awful apocalypse was just around the corner.

Who has the UK been negotiating with?