Sunday 15 June 2014

New Middle East and the European lesson

http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/peters-blood-borders-map/

http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/63217/jerry-z-muller/us-and-them

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/15/opinion/sunday/ross-douthat-changing-maps-in-the-mideast.html?hp&rref=opinion


Friday 16 May 2014

Possibly a big change in India

Nobody really knows what will happen

Monday 12 May 2014

A change?

Democracy is great because it allows you to kick out a government. Of course it doesn't guarantee that you choose a better one.

Friday 2 May 2014

But what do they know

You might think that South Africans know something about a smaller group dominating a larger. But you'd be wrong; it is much nicer to have word games about "apartheid" and "jewish states" than to deal with reality

Thursday 1 May 2014

Farage and Neward

Leaving aide the claims of 'bottling', was this a clever move? The chattering classes think so.