Trump’s tariffs are of course nonsense and use made up figures to calculate the so called tariffs other countries charge the US. They then presented charging just over 50% against the dreamed up numbers as a good thing. Ignoring the… Read More ›
Politics
It feels like a homecoming
At Heathrow, back in UK for a few days. It feels like a homecoming. I feel physically and mentally lighter, at a distance from the toxic environment in Washington. I didn’t realize how much it was affecting me. O/c, the… Read More ›
Shamefully premeditated
I have watched Trump closely over the past 3 days and it is more obvious than ever that every discussion is about ‘Trump’. He is a man child with the thinnest possible skin who bases everything on how it makes… Read More ›
There is a BIG gulf…
He’d rather have his name emblazoned on a building he doesn’t own than own a building that doesn’t bear his name. To Trump, the name on the sign is more important than the deed. So too, now, with the name… Read More ›
He’s a solipsist
Trump’s solipsistic character was on full display on 20 January in the Capitol Rotunda. After stating, absurdly, that houses had burned “tragically” in Los Angeles “without even a token of defense”, the president seemed to turn philosophical and then appeared… Read More ›
Journalism is collapsing
The public is in desperate need of accurate journalism which cuts through the screaming. We need reporters who can refute what’s being said, or interrogate it, or at least put it in context. Instead, journalists – opponents and supporters alike… Read More ›
UK demands access to Apple users’ encrypted data
The UK government has demanded to be able to access encrypted data stored by Apple users worldwide in its cloud service. Currently only the Apple account holder can access data stored in this way – the tech giant itself cannot… Read More ›
Five key impacts of Brexit
Five years ago, on 31 January 2020, the UK left the European Union. On that day, Great Britain severed the political ties it had held for 47 years, but stayed inside the EU single market and customs union for a… Read More ›
Alt Reich
The West faces its most dangerous threat since World War II. Over the last 100 years, a shadowy network of American, British and European extremists inspired by Nazi eugenics has worked feverishly to shape an insidious new fascism, masquerading under… Read More ›
Trump 2 .0
The video below is funny, clever, 100% on the nail and typical of JP. He just gets better and better…
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