Borthlas

  In Blazing Saddles , Cleavon Little’s Sheriff holds a gun to his own head and gets out of a sticky situation by telling the townsfolk tha...

As the world stands on the brink of an economic disaster brought about by the deranged occupant of the White House, and we ordinary mortals ...

  The dire warnings about the impact of the war in the Middle East on the global economy are mostly valid, and the fault lies squarely at t...

  It is a given that Trump’s statement about talks with Iran is a lie. Working out which part of his rant is the lie is much harder – maybe...

  When I was a child, the kids from our street used to go into the fields at the end of the road and play commandos. Well, it was the 1950s,...

  Last week, this blog referred to the question of a falling birth rate, and the alleged ‘problems’ it creates. The Sunday times (paywall) c...

  There are few government policies that are so financially ruinous that they cannot be made more so by a determined politician. And this we...

  It has long been understood that the one thing that governments can always find money for is war. War is undoubtedly costly, as the US is ...

  The view that a falling birth rate is a ‘problem’ which needs to be addressed might be being expressed most forcibly by the political ‘ri...

  As the warmongering rhetoric of the UK’s traditional parties (Tory, Lib Dems and Labour), along with newcomer Reform Ltd, ramps up, sugges...