More complicated?

Is the US discovering that Syria, and the whole Middle East, is more complicated than they thought? Here some Christians are caught in the middle of a fundamentalist Sunni war against everone who isn't fundamentalist Sunni.

Of course we still love you . . .

. . . with fracking reducing the need for oil, how much effort does the US want to spend on the intractable problems of the Middle East? If this is what they want, then why don't the American public like the lower international posture?

A 4 party system?

Clegg gets 36% -- how did Cameron and Milliband allow this?

Post-Snowden effect

What is proposed won't be what is enacted, and of course what it enacted will be bypassed; but it is important that "they" realise they must be seen to change the existing system, and that the efforts to tough it have failed.

Iran nuclear deal?

Motivation of Iran and US. Does it bother Iran to remember that the previous 2 Muslim states to give up nuclear programmes were both subsequently attacked, but Pakistan didn't and wasn't?

Middle East realignment

The title of this story is misleading -- it deals with a larger topic tangentiallyhttp://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/assad-is-already-counting-on-soldiers-still-at-school-to-fill-the-gaps-left-by-30000-casualties-9211142.html

Hugely significant for the finance industry?

The end of compulsory annuities; treating retirees as adults.