We have heard a lot of overheated rhetoric about America suffering a humiliating defeat in Afghanistan. Among the many commentators are those who should know better than to characterise the end of the conflict as a humiliating defeat. When compared to *any* previous humiliating defeat, America’s withdrawal from Afghtanistan after…

The “book” is a waste of time and money. I have read it and now wish I had read something else in the time it took to read it and write about it. Why read it? I read it for two reasons first, people like Mike Anton had reviewed it…

Vladimir Putin is no Joe Biden. Putin, unlike Biden, is afraid to face his political opponents in a free and fair election. He relies on threats, intimidation, and in some cases, assassination, to assure his election. Biden’s democratic mandate endows him with a legitimacy that Putin can neither buy nor…

On Saturday, I helped to rescue a girl from the North Sea off the Redcar sea defences. Minutes before the rescue, I filmed the sea about 20 metres from where we eventually pulled the girl from the water. Little did I realise when I took this video at at…

This is what Texas wants. 1. Texas knew about this risk and did nothing to prevent it. A similar storm in 2011 should have changed the industry or the regulators or even the public’s mind, but nothing changed. 2. The politicians who are responsible and the political parties they represent…

Foreward: In November 2016, I wrote this after the recording emerged of a meeting between Hilary Clinton and Black Lives Matter. I never got around to publishing it because other events got in the way. I return to it now because it seems to capture issues that remain present even…

By: A Yeoman Farmer The Flight 93 Election By: Publius Decius Mus[i] September 5, 2016 On 5 September 2016, a writer under the pseudonym of Publius Decius Mus, wrote a defence of Trump which was also an extended meditation on the American conservative movement. Although not aware of it, the…

America is addicted. We see this everyday as 100s of Americans die from drug overdoses. The opioid crisis is a national emergency yet the government’s response is insubstantial in comparison to the problem with their most substantial act to declare and reaffirming the national emergency. …