Here's a seriously good offering by a heavyweight US historian of the geopolitics of the modern age.  We all have our amateur views on ...

Popular Popov:   a soldiers' soldier Way down the rankings on the War in Ukraine pages is the newly-revived story of Russian General Po...

A while ago I featured one of the more creative examples of the estate agents' art of describing properties for sale in euphemistic term...

I'm not entirely sure why we bother, but it seems GE 2024 ('25?) has kicked off with Starmer's "6 first steps".  Just ...

Recently we aired the thesis that the oil & gas majors (Exxon, Shell, BP, Total, Equinor et al) have effectively given up on net zero a...

" The EU has restated its readiness to launch a trade war with China over imports of cheap electric cars, steel and cheap solar and win...

I was a teenager when the anti-war protests hit US universities (and Grosvenor Square) and there was one of those historically quite frequen...

As argued here several times, governments are deeply ill-advised to set "legally binding targets" for Net Zero policies.  Well, LB...

Yesterday I met a senior DESNZ type who was a bit miffed that there'd been very little coverage of this announcement from January -   U...

It's been a very long time since we last ran a thread on gold - it seems to be this one from 2015 , when CU wrote:  Gold hits a five ye...

Prisoners of Geography (Tim Marshall) is a well known, oft-quoted book on geopolitics.  It's really an A-level text - first-year univer...

Here's a very odd story , that we must surely assume comes from Lloyds itself.  Lloyds cuts risk management roles in bid to ‘move at gre...

Unloved - in some quarters ... Shell seems to be putting it about that it might leave the LSE for a New York listing .  Well, it's alrea...

The other day I was asked by a good friend and ex colleague whether, by some remote chance, I'd kept a copy of a report we'd written...

Over at Sacker's blog, there's an interesting Good Friday post from 'JD': a religious procession in the Spanish town of Avil...

So we have an outcome on yet another of our 2024 predictions compo items: SB-F's sentence & fine .  The jail term is clear enough, ...

In times gone by Germany as a whole, and most German businessmen I have met, liked to come across as the grown-ups of Europe.  Oh, their wor...

By, er, popular demand :  a short account of the recent refurbishment of Sidney Cotton's legendary Lockheed Electra 12a, UK registration...

Having considered developments on the land , we now turn to the air.  Many months ago there was a period of serious debate around whether R...

A couple of years ago I ran a couple of posts on the piratical old rogue  Sidney Cotton and his WW2 exploits in the famous Lockheed G-AFTL;...