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Elon Musk: the benign sociopath
Elon Musk is the rarest of things, a benign sociopath, and therefore a person of considerable value to the world. He has just made a…
All options look bad in Iran today
“Death to !” has been the slogan of choice chanted by Iranian protesters since the glory days of the Islamic Revolution in 1979. (“Death to…
UK has been sending in the clowns lately
Italy is getting nervous. The United Kingdom’s Conservative Party (aka the Tories) has now been led by four different prime ministers in only six years.…
The focus shifts to Moscow’s unwinnable invasion of Ukraine
Moscow is not blaming the latest Ukrainian attack on careless Russian smokers, as it previously tried to do with suspicious explosions on airbases in Russian-occupied…
The human speed limit is naturally slow
I’m writing this on a plane to Greenland – well, actually, on a plane to Denmark, because there’s no way to get to Greenland by…
Is Putin bluffing about nukes?
Vladimir Putin’s desperation was plain in the emergency measures he declared last week: immediate mobilization of at least 300,000 more troops, the sudden decision to…
The hard right nears power in Italy
There’s an election in Italy next Sunday, almost exactly 100 years after Benito Mussolini’s ‘blackshirts’ marched on Rome and brought the first fascist dictator to…
The risk of a ceasefire dwindles in Ukraine
Two months ago, John Bolton wrote an article in ‘The Hill,’ the leading politics website in Washington, warning against a Russian ‘October Surprise.’ He suggested…
Gorbachev and Russia’s futile attempt at empire
This is not another pipe-sucking reassessment of Mikhail Gorbachev’s failed attempt to democratise the Soviet Union 30 years ago. He wasn’t actually trying to do…
Might Russia use its ‘tactical’ nuclear weapons?
The president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, last week announced that the country’s combat aircraft have been ‘upgraded’ by the Russians to carry nuclear weapons, and…
