Both leading EU states and the US are following the Prime Minister’s lead on Russia.
“Between 80,000 and 150,000 people work making steel in the US. Seventeen million are employed in industries which use steel.”
It’s all too easy to ascribe the capabilities of Russia’s best chess players to its secret services. But consider a radical possibility: the latter have messed up.
Amy Chua says they are blind to the decisive importance of tribal politics – an obliviousness which extends to America itself, and prepared the way for Trump.
It’s one thing to recognise the long-term threats posed by states such as Russia, quite another to meet them.
We don’t need a European solution; we need a global solution. We must think independent Anglosphere, not dependent Eurosphere.
Plus: Johnson’s EU speech. Turnbull’s sex ban. Horror in America. Change in South Africa. And: order your popcorn for this weekend’s UKIP conference.
The GOP’s attempts at reform have failed, and the President’s account of his own views on the topic seems to vary all the time.
P.S: Only one Tory Prime Minister in recent years was “taken down” by Tory MPs. Clue: it was neither Major nor Cameron.
And the Republicans have forgotten how to stop a demagogue from becoming their presidential candidate.
Even in an age of austerity, government has plenty of power and assets, which it could on a small-scale, experimental basis transfer to the control of community groups.