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How Much Europeans Love Trump!

11 Aug 2026 2 minute read 6 comments rah

I was browsing on my social media this morning and came across a very interesting graphic. that gives a general impression of the popularity of Trump in Europe and this must be juxta-positioned against his claim, frequently repeated, that he had won...

Surely this has to be too far... even for him...

7 Aug 2026 5 minute read 9 comments rah

A couple of days ago I was browsing on the internet and I know some have accused me of suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome, but surely even the blind can see how far he has lost the plot and I really don't understand how anybody with any sense...

Immigration and Common Sense.

26 Jul 2026 6 minute read 0 comments rah

I look at England from afar with growing sadness in my eyes as I watch what is unfolding there. In fact this all coalesed a few days ago when it was a friend's birthday. When I say friend, there was a time when we were closer, but nowadays we just te...

4th July - A Different Take On it

6 Jul 2026 2 minute read 0 comments rah

Yesterday marked the 250th anniversary of the birth of the US - that's right on this day, 4/7/76 - the 4th July 1776, the Thirteen Colonies declared independence from Great Britain and the British Empire, in what has become known by Americans as "Ind...

A Call for Unity in the Face of Global Uncertainty

2 May 2026 15 minute read 0 comments rah

It's been the best part of a week since President Trump hosted King Charles III (I must be honest it still seems weird not saying The Queen) and as part of his visit he was invited to speak to a joint session of both houses. Trump complimented him be...

Come on - Really?

30 Apr 2026 5 minute read 8 comments rah

You may well already be familiar with the above image which Donald Trump posted before he later withdrew it? It is obviously AI generated and while he did not create it himself he did help to propagate it and did nothing to stop it going viral. He cl...

Europe - Weak as MAGA and Trump Claim?

24 Apr 2026 3 minute read 1 comment rah

Europe is not who Trump thinks it is nor is America the bastion of freedom as claimed by Roosevelt. We are not the Europe of the 20th century, during which in the first half, it tore itself apart as a rampant militarist nationalism took hold. The pri...

10 Things Republicans Need to Fact Check

29 Mar 2026 6 minute read 8 comments rah

The truth is that Donald Trump is a pathological liar and has even less integrity than those more renowned as monsters such as Vladimir Putin (and yes I do remember Bucha among other atrocities). At least with Putin there is a plan and a certain logi...

Clarity for the Crytpo Landscape

27 Mar 2026 3 minute read 4 comments rah

In recent weeks, as I have been reading and looking for material to post on I have increasingly come across references to the US Clarity Act and I have decided that it is high time that I take a deeper dive into it and see what it is all about and so...

The Two Faces of Donald Trump

20 Mar 2026 3 minute read 7 comments rah

Donald Trump is a master of international diplomacy and what he has done he has done with a certain amount of finese and even eloquence. To use a hyperbole, just as he tends to, nobody in the entire history of the world has ever managed to achieve wh...