With President Trump reportedly casting acquisitive glances toward Canada and Greenland, the world has been reminded of a long-lost genre of geopolitics: the real estate brochure. Borders, it turns out, are just zoning suggestions, and sovereignty is merely a lease agreement waiting to be renegotiated by someone with enough confidence and a very large Sharpie. […]
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Divided We Stand: Navigating Political Polarisation
As elections in Britain and the United States are upon us (and all of a sudden also in France), it is time to look at the political landscape and how it has evolved. Once upon a time in the United Kingdom there used to be the Conservatives and the Labour Party – and to a […]
MP’s Earnings
In the middle of July we learned through the media what our MPs were earning outside their parliamentary roles: They earn on average £233 an hour, which is 17 times the national average wage and 22 times higher than the minimum hourly wage. The highest paid sitting MP was Liz Truss, remember, she’s the Prime […]
Banana Republic
Anyone observing from the outside the British isles what is currently happening in British politics must be appalled! After Boris Johnson resigned in shame in July, Liz Truss, his successor as Prime Minister, nominated by the members of the Conservative party, lasted a mere 44 days in her job before being forced to resign over […]
Weirdos and misfits
As if the Brexit saga wasn’t already strange enough, it just got a bit more absurd of late when Dominic Cummings, adviser to the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson invited in his blog ‘weirdos and misfits’ to apply to join the British civil service. And so Uri Geller of spoon bending fame has announced that […]
The grumpy older man 