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Sure, you can do this. Just beware the political consequences. An army of middle class folk no longer with a stake in the pension system. That's a lifetime of payments into the system with next to no benefit. An army of middle class people aged, say, 40 and above are not voting for the party...

There was no question mark at the end of your previous post to me. I thought it was an assumption on your part rather than a question.

Tragedy for the mainstream political parties and the thousands of high and mid level politicians of these parties. Personally I'd far prefer we didn't have to go through this populist revolt. We don't know where it ultimately leads. However, it looks like a populist phase is coming throughout...

This was always on the cards but not for the reasons you cite. Modern Western nation States were always going to run out of cheap money as the baby boomers retired in their millions. Add to that some, erm, cultural issues and you have a recipe for populism. If it's happening in most major...

It's not so much about the specific party whether it be in the UK, US, France or Germany, it's about the populist wave spreading throughout much of the West. It's either that or an old fashioned protest vote. I think it's more likely the former than the latter. Much more to come. The tragedy...

I'm willing to let the master negotiator and deal-maker play this out as he sees fit. If he wants to play hardball then let him play hardball. If he wants to play softball then let him play softball. His judgement on these things are greater than yours, mine, or the cretins in the MSM. Edit...

Well, don't say you haven't been warned.

One of the most important roles of a nation state is to ensure cheap and stable energy to it's citizens or subjects. If a nation state fails to do this it will result in political disruption and even chaos. The Tories found this out at the last election, as did the Dems in the US. The German...

Eh? Clinton won the popular vote. Large regions of the world are governed by female Presidents or Prime Ministers. Even Mexico. Both women were extremely flawed candidates. Neither were good campaigners. Hillary famously refused to campaign in Wisconsin, and in fact thought her time better...

Events moving rapidly. As I said, it's best to hold off more than two weeks before making judgement on a long-term policy goal. China is still in Trump's cross hairs. With everyone else it's back to negotiations. Statesmanlike behaviour from Trump. The world thanks you, sir.

I was quite honest in saying this is a risk strategy from Trump, but to judge it on a longer-term timeline than merely 2 weeks. I'd say I'm more nuanced and honest on this topic than most on this thread.

I'm glad you alluded to Russia. Oil price now at a four year low and hopefully continuing to fall. This puts a further squeeze on Russia. For all the egghead policy wonks telling us how best to deal strategically with Russia the best way to keep Russia in its box is simply to maintain low oil...

That's the 'borosilicate glass sippy cup' market destroyed then. Shame. Scott Bessent was on TV saying Trump's tariffs of 20% on China in his first term resulted in a less than 1% price increase to the US consumer. If(and I realise that's a big if)accurate then these tariffs are not going to...

Bernie Sanders arguing against free trade and outsourcing of US jobs. Now he's against tariffs because Trump has introduced them. This is exactly why Trump made huge inroads with blue collar workers. Workers now abandoned by Bernie Sanders.

I think you mean the 19th century robber barons. The 18th century was 1701 to 1800. If you don't know when the 19th century was I suspect you know little of what caused the Great Depression. It's a debate from economic history that is far from settled. I'd have the Robber Barons back any day of...

The left call for greater tolerance, in fact they demand it of us. Yet, they are all too quick to throw out the gay slurs at people they disagree with. Weird.

If Le Pen was a better politician she'd release a simple statement on the trial verdict: 'fight, fight, fight'. She still has an appeal pending. Would also be appropriate to release the statement then. I suspect the verdict will only increase the support of her party with the French electorate.

US treasury yields falling. A big win for the long term fiscal outlook of the US. Now it's time to increase manufacturing jobs for good, honest, salt of the earth blue collar workers. Maybe the EU should put in place their own tariff's on imports from outside the EU. Oh wait, they already do...

Nothing exemplifies 'decent society' more than a poster saying he hopes Donald Trump and Elon Musk are both assassinated and over twenty posters liking the comment.

I think it's safe to say you at least approved the idea of assassinating a politician you do not like. You had more than 20 happy clappers on this thread cheering you on. Disturbing.