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Energy: it wasn’t, but if it was, it wasn’t

April 30, 2025 2:37 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

I missed a trick yesterday, failing to spot the iPaper front-page headline, which boldly proclaimed: “Spain and Portugal thrown into... View Article

Energy: predictable and predicted

April 29, 2025 2:41 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Watching the reports come in of the blackouts in Spain, Portugal and parts of France has been an interesting experience,... View Article

Politics: in the raw

April 28, 2025 3:55 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Although there has been a trickle of comment on the web, there is nothing approaching what could be called outrage... View Article

Politics: marking time

April 27, 2025 3:27 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

It was inevitable that the pope’s funeral would consume most of the media bandwidth this weekend, an event in which... View Article

Politics: the brink of war

April 26, 2025 3:42 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

After a slow start, following the news reports of last Tuesday’s terrorist attack in Indian-held Kashmir, the British media seems... View Article

Politics: poking the hornet’s nest

April 25, 2025 3:02 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

As the Telegraph reports today that “Pakistan threatens war with India after Kashmir massacre”, readers might be puzzled by the... View Article

Politics: Kashmir spill-over

April 24, 2025 3:43 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Once again, we’re in a sort of “one war at a time” scenario with the media. Currently, despite the resumption... View Article

Politics: a state of flux

April 23, 2025 3:58 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

With the campaigning for the 1 May local elections and, of course, the Runcorn and Helsby by-election, running into the... View Article

Defence: a Great British Bang

April 22, 2025 2:50 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Before moving on to the substantive topic, I cannot help noting that, of the recently departed Pope Francis, this was... View Article

Politics: let loose the dogs

April 21, 2025 1:59 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

There has been some considerable outrage recently over the incident at HMP Frankland, where convicted terrorist Hashem Abedi attacked three... View Article

Politics: we have lived in vain

April 20, 2025 3:38 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

It’s too early to judge what Putin is playing at, announcing at short notice a 30-hour truce in Ukraine over... View Article

Ukraine: walking away

April 19, 2025 3:24 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

From top of the news agenda in early March, it is difficult now to discern the relative importance of the... View Article

Defence: beyond the spin

April 18, 2025 4:01 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Even as I was writing yesterday’s post, I had that feeling that there were much more important things I should... View Article

Politics: battles still to fight

April 17, 2025 2:39 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

It should never, ever have been the case that the definition of a woman was a political hot-potato, and that... View Article

Politics: more broken than Britain?

April 16, 2025 3:01 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

It was yesterday that The Sun delivered a front-page banner headline proclaiming: “Britain is Broken”, this coincidentally the slogan that... View Article

Ukraine: too costly to lose

April 15, 2025 3:24 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Whenever I read a piece by Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, the Telegraph’s tank warfare guru, I am reminded of the old... View Article

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