Despite the grief, anxiety and disruption, there could also be an upside to the virus if it made people realise what matters and is essential and what is froth. During lock-down, the carbon foot print will shrink. Life becomes simpler. Although th
Read more…The Archbishop of Canterbury has issued a report suggesting that the UK economic model is "broken", that since the financial crisis what economic growth there has been has gone into profits rather than earnings resulting in "the longest period of ear
Read more…It is such a turn around from when I was young - now it is the leader of Russia who speaks common sense while America goes in for calculated hysteria. What has the world come to?
CNN report on speech by Vladimir Putin:
Russian President Vladimir Put
Read more…Military Build Up
The world is becoming more dangerous. America, China and Russia are increasing their military capacities at a rapid rate. An arms race is in progress. The US is deploying increasing quantities of military personnel and equipment in E
Economic effects rarely happen suddenly. Usually it takes time for things to work through the system. Talk of a “cliff” is emotive, but in reality it all takes time.
The Pound & Immigration
Two main economic effects are already to be seen and their co
It used to be the case that if one was married to somebody from another country you were welcome in either country. However, it now seems that even if one is married to a UK citizen, been in UK some years, and expecting a baby you can still be deport
Read more…It is a sad thing to see that the USA is now a country that refugees are fleeing from.
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/08/23/americas/canada-asylum-seekers-from-united-states/index.html
Throughout my life America was the country that people fled to. Ther
Read more…There is much debate inside the EU at the moment about the rules that govern labour mobility. Macron wants to change these, the East European members want to keep present arrangements. The richer countries are finding their high wages undercut by che
Read more…Don't Be Complacent About War in the Middle East
The biggest danger in the world at the moment is that the Middle East war transmute from a complex of minor wars into one big one. In my previous post on the region - Qatar - I tried to show how comple
Read more…Macron's Remarkable Success
What can one say? So far it is a walk over. President Macron is getting what Theresa May wanted. There is still a week for things to go wrong but all the signs are that he will get the biggest parliamentary majority of the
Read more…The war in the Middle East is extremely difficult to unravel or understand. Basically the region has three Muslim power centres: Turkey, Iran and Saudi Arabia. In addition, there is Israel which also has a very powerful military, but in the present p
Read more…On Wednesday past the US congress extended legislation imposing sanctions on Russia. However, under this new legislation companies working on Russo-German joint projects that Germany regards as essential to its economic wellbeing become liable to pun
Read more…Don't Be Complacent About War in the Middle East
The biggest danger in the world at the moment is that the Middle East war transmute from a complex of minor wars into one big one. In my previous post on the region - Qatar - I tried to show how comple
Read more…Publicado por David Brazier el 19 de agosto de 2017 en el grupo “War and Peace” (Guerra y Paz)
¿Qué podemos hacer en respuesta al terror, a la violencia y a los peligros que hay en todo el mundo en estos días?
Por supuesto, hay un límite en cuanto a
Read more…Still a few results to come in but it looks as though there will be a weak and wobbly Conservative government dependent upon support from the Northern Ireland Democratic Unionist Party. Several different trends seem to have emerged. Governing parties
Read more…Tectonic Changes
Looking at the world political scene it seems as though the dam has burst now. Trump pulling out of the Paris Accord, Merkel declaring that the US & UK are no longer dependable, news that the EU and China are moving ahead together -
Read more…Lavrov (last Saturday): “Libya was bombed and its government was violently overthrown. It was turned into a backyard for terrorists and criminals. The regime was changed with the help of fighters who came from Europe. They were free to leave their co
Read more…Isn't it wonderful news that the USA has agreed to spend money on clearing up all the anti-personnel munitions that they dropped on Laos during the Vietnam War ! They are actually going to spend something like a tenth of a percent of the cost of the
Read more…It seems that xenophobia is currently a rising issue. Countries in parts of south east Europe have erected barriers to stop foreigners from the Middle east war zone entering their countries as refugees. Britain has voted for 'Brexit' and it seems tha
Read more…In Britain, the decision to leave the EU has been taken in what until now would normally be regarded as an unconstitutional way, namely by referendum. A slight majority of the population has over-rules the majority of MPs. This, in effect, means that
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