When it comes to human behavior, things only change for the better when there is a lucid and unobstructed perception of what’s going on. Self-destructive behavior patterns only go away when there’s a lucid and unobstructed perception of the previously unconscious psychological dynamics which were driving them. Victims of abuse only end their abusive relationships…
The British government desperately tried to patch up relations with the US after relations between the close allies nosedived during the 1973 Arab-Israeli war when the US was reported to have drawn up contingency plans to use force in the Middle East “either directly or by deposing existing regimes”, hitherto secret papers released on Wednesday…
Covid-19 is familiar to us as the virus causing a worldwide pandemic that has killed millions. Brexit is withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union, which, although calamitous for Britain, is not a matter for wide international concern. And thirdly, as the excellent researchers of the House of Commons note, “the Dreadnought programme…
What with Covid, Brexit, almost dying and becoming a dad again, it’s been a big year for the British PM. Here are the past 12 months in his own verbose words… the very best (or worst) of BoJo in 2020. Boris Johnson is mildly obsessed with Winston Churchill. And they do actually have a fair…
Boris Johnson’s picturing the finally agreed Brexit deal as some sort of bonanza for Britain is both wrong and misleading. As the devil is always in the details… So the deal has been agreed. This was always going to happen; as I pointed out a couple of weeks ago, Boris Johnson was clearly bluffing about his…
The British newspaper the Sunday Times, relying on the usual unnamed Western intelligence sources (German this time they say, but as they’re unnamed, who knows?), has just re-animated the Navalny poisoning story by informing us: “Revealed: Kremlin made a second attempt to poison Alexei Navalny in botched assassination: Russian spies tried to kill Putin’s fiercest…
