thomas

Foreign policy priorities

06/08/201414/03/2017 thomas 16 Comments

As a rule of thumb, I reckon you can get a rough idea of a country’s foreign policy priorities by

16/07/201416/07/2014 thomas 8 Comments

In the most recent issue of The Economist, there are four articles about Scottish independence, as well as a photo

14/07/2014 thomas 11 Comments

I think Alex Salmond does a very good job as First Minister, but I fully respect that he’s not everybody’s

04/07/2014 thomas 9 Comments

There was a rather odd article by professor Vernon Bogdanor, David Cameron’s former politics tutor at Oxford University, in The

30/06/2014 thomas 23 Comments

It must be easy to run an astroturf campaign. Because all your activists are actually your employees, they’ll do exactly

27/06/201403/05/2017 thomas 26 Comments

It’s now certain that Jean-Claude Juncker will become President of the European Commission. The European Council (the heads of government

26/06/2014 thomas 2 Comments

Denmark used to have a great welfare state, but it’s getting undermined at the moment. For instance, private hospitals are