Presidential hopeful Kamala Harris says it’s time for a change. A funny thing to say when you’ve been the Vice President for the last three and a half years.
It’s easy to get along with people who have no power over you. Their opinions don’t really matter. But what happens when you introduce power into this mix?
It’s been three years since I warned, “Don’t Join The
Children’s [Climate] Crusade.” And one year since identifying “Net Zero’s Metallic Dissonance”. Now what?
The last few days have brought the usual election-year claptrap. Kamala’s supposedly plans to tax her own donors. And Trump’s tariffs are a tax on the poor.
We look like a complete bunch of plonkers to the Japanese. How hard can it be? If you don’t want more immigration, you just stop issuing visas. Why the fuss?
When the Irish defenders of Aughrim Castle opened their ammunition boxes, they discovered that English musket balls were too big for French flintlocks.
No political theory can explain the dysfunction of our institutions. Perhaps they’ve just gotten so big that they don’t care about what policies are imposed.
The Olympics is all about soft power, but in the Middle East, hard power still dominates, with scary implications for energy markets and the global inflation narrative.