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Another View From (The Shed By) The Greenhouse……How Corrupted?

12th November 2024 Colin Cross 1915 Comments

It goes without saying (but I’m going to repeat it anyway, for those tin-eared few at the back) that Labour won the election simply because the Tories had managed to make themselves un-electable and Reform, [more…]

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Deeper in the Dirt

9th October 2024 Going Postal 2046 Comments

Two of my recent articles deal with the militarily useful information Iran might gain from their own pre-notified “swarm” attack on Israel and the recent retaliation by client Hezbollah for the killing of one of [more…]

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A Mushroom May Yet Bloom

2nd October 2024 Going Postal 2487 Comments

In a previous post, “Will Mushrooms Bloom in Haifa?” I postulated that Iran’s recent swarm attack might not be a simple, if potentially deadly, diplomatic slap at Israel for killing one of their progeny’s leaders [more…]

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Will Mushrooms Bloom in Haifa?

25th September 2024 Going Postal 2060 Comments

Underneath the appropriate concern of conventional airborne attacks on Israel by Iran and its progeny lies an anxious appraisal of a potential nuclear attack. That fear is the basic driving force of U.S. policy towards [more…]

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The Birth of the Angry Young Man

19th September 2024 Going Postal 2188 Comments

In 1956 the play Look Back in Anger was first staged in Britain. Written by John Osborne, it was the story of Jimmy Porter – who came to symbolise a new force in postwar Britain – the [more…]

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Building on Sand? The Perils of Peacemaking in Sudan

11th September 2024 Going Postal 2553 Comments

After 16 months of civil war, Sudan increasingly resembles a ‘failed state’, with displacement and man-made famine driving one of the ‘worst humanitarian disasters in recent memory’. Following early setbacks, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) [more…]

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Disaster Over The Strait of Hormuz

27th July 2024 Always Worth Saying 2422 Comments

As Mrs AWS and I flash through the Scottish Lowlands after our day trip to Edinburgh, passing through Lockerbie station reminds us of events decades ago and thousands of miles away. Nowadays the term ‘Gulf [more…]

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Near-Disaster at 39,000ft

20th July 2024 Always Worth Saying 2037 Comments

Returning home from our day trip to Edinburgh, myself and Mrs AWS have pause for thought as we eat our Burger Kings in Standard Premium. Beyond our train window, the peaceful Scottish Lowlands flash past. [more…]

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Macron Keeps Discrediting France

8th May 2024 Going Postal 2168 Comments

At this rate, there’s no longer any credible chance that France will revive its independent foreign policy traditions after the five major foreign policy mistakes that Macron made over just the last two years. He’s [more…]

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