So say the highly intelligent, err, US intelligence agencies. The USA is in a real bind with China. On the one hand, China creates the m...

So far as many of us are concerned, George Soros has limited bona fides .  But he's onto something here .  "... social media comp...

What is a citizen to make of " soaring crime rates "?  This from the same source that gave us steadily falling cime statistics fro...

One of the reasons the Iranian revolution 1979-81 succeeded so brilliantly was that the incoming clerical regime delivered an immediate fina...

Whenever a big company goes under these days, much of the post-collapse discussion surrounds the pension entitlements of former employees. T...

... in more ways than one. Firstly, the literal chill that has set in since the new " Xi Jinping Thought " was rolled out, inclu...

  Political Betting has very reliable data. And usually, very reliable, if liberal democrat interpretations, of that data. Two po...

The great genius of British society since the demise of Queen Mary 1 has been its ability to tolerate, absorb and generally house-train grou...

There is plenty elsewhere on the not-so-swift demise of this huge UK corporate that the Government trusted with some very large infrastructu...

Do you get why? You see, today, Mr Farage has pulled a complete blinder. Sat around for months on end he has witnessed the remain-led Lo...

Drawing a kindly veil over Mrs M's pathetic attempt to recharge her government, let us pass swiftly on to recharging of a different so...

Hmm....   May Brown   Policies Management Competence       Positives Brexit   ...

In a non-exclusive first for C@W we are going to cover the Government re-shuffle as it happens. However, it seems none of the Foreign Sec...

If you want to read good news stories, check this out in the Financial Times . Even by the standards of the #despitebrexit media this is a...

  Its a sad fact, but true.  The leaders of populism are colossal arses. From Trump down, whether progressives or regressives, they ju...

HNY, C@W readers everywhere!   Mine's off to a good start as I got round to reading this piece in the Observer : Burning wood for pow...

So, a little belatedly for no real good reason, here are some of the major likely themes of 2018 - time to decide how it will pan out......

1. Will trump start a hot war?     NO 2. Islamic state defeated and Raqqa to fall?   YES 3. Article 50 passed and UK set for Brexit?   YES...

Happy Xmas one and all. It has certainly been a strange year and to be frank 2018 looks already like it is just going to get weirder. ...

The newpapers don't know quite what to say about Damian Green.  I suspect a couple of things are going through editorial minds.   (a) ...