2019: The Year Ahead.
New year – New Events – but new policies? Not so much. Statecraft doesn’t start from scratch on Jan 1st, but it’s useful to look…
December 2018
Podcast: Looking Ahead to 2019
Tis the Season to be Podcasting –
Herewith the 8th W&Y podcast in which Trump cuts and runs, Mattis runs and cuts, Charles Michel runs and collapses, and Rene and Georgette Magritte…
The Brexit Spotlight
It’s time to move the Brexit spotlight. Its focus on Theresa May’s deal has thoroughly exposed the bankruptcy of the British Prime Minister’s proposal and…
Christmas in Syria.
The fragile truce in Syria’s Idlib province looks as if maybe severely tested over the next few weeks. President Assad is on record as saying…
Wanted: Helmsman
The good ship Europa is without a helmsman, rudderless, and drifting aimlessly through the stormy seas, dangerous shoals and shark-infested waters of Brexit, immigration, a…
The Holmes Option
Sherlock Holmes offered the solution to the current Brexit conundrum admirably when he told Dr Watson in the Beryl Coronet: “when you have excluded the…
Super Massive Brexhole!
Welcome to the late late show! Coming from the Black Hole which is Brexit and the British Parliament. Prime Minister Theresa May has agreed a…
China’s Uihgur Problem
The G20 is all but concluded. China and the US appear to have halted the next round of damaging tariffs in their trade-war and are…
Kings of All Trades
They know everything. That is why they were elected to high office. President Trump is not only a high-flying real estate tycoon. He is also…