Sorry for the protracted spacing between posts: both CU and meself are heavily preoccupied, the stories may some day be told. Anyhow, I thou...

A while back before the fighting started, I related some first hand experiences that convinced me there was enough resentment amongst Ukrai...

 So last week I wrote about how Boris would survive, undeservedly, due to Ukraine and Labour being so weak. However, today he came to Parlia...

 He seems to be a lucky General. I don't think you could argue that without the Ukraine war Boris would still be Prime Minister. The who...

There's a very long history of financial sanctions.  Apartheid-era South Africa and Rhodesia suffered for years, but somehow got by (and...

These are extraordinary times.  Some weeks ago I was finding it hard to  believe German politicians really understood how their energy econ...

I return early from a very pressured business week, with doom & gloom all around ... but contemplating a spot of gardening I was reminde...

It's usually part of the normal C@W service to pre-digest blockbuster energy announcements from government and serve you up a swift prec...

Soldiers on the move through civilian areas are rarely paragons of virtue when the blood's up: even a determined disciplinarian like Wel...

You'll often see pronouncements from the International Energy Agency being cited by all manner of differing parties & factions as au...

It's worth a small laugh over this cold weekend, but you have also to feel sorry for General Eric Vidaud, head of French military "...

"Jack Watling said in a recent paper that to survive in the east, Ukrainian forces needed to “prevent the Russians from being able to c...

From time to time I am moved to observe that Germans, as a rule, have no intuitive grasp of how markets work.  Perhaps their postwar social...

Who could have predicted that? As ever, the Government in their Spring Statement are happy to play the cynical nice guy, making a 5p cut in ...

As was suggested BTL on Friday, the Chinese piece we linked to last time certainly conveys ( inter alia ) a worldview fairly palatable to we...

You'll never read a more instructive short position-paper than this Chinese one on how China should conduct itself vis-à-vis Putin and U...

After some stabilisation in the Ukraine war and also a realisation that much of Europe is not about to ban Russian oil imports, Brent Crude ...

Our esteemed BQ gave an excellent account of how Putin must have totted up the scores before making his fateful move ( BTL here ).  It all l...

 The statements from Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister yesterday are very concerning indeed. he has gone the full Comical Ali. The West i...

The say the EC is full of devious people always waiting for opportunities to offer the unchanging panacea:  " the solution is more Euro...