Geopolitics

Another cunning plan

plus Goodwood, Deauville, Beverley and Yarmouth on telly

Aug 24 •

If only mending Blighty was as easy as picking winners at York!

I occasionally poke my nose into the pages of Huffington Post, largely when I need to take the edge off my boyish enthusiasm for life.

Aug 23 •

Rumbling tum, or maybe it's grumbling...

Since about Tuesday or Wednesday last week, I have been marginally off-peak.

Jul 7 •

On Tuesday, the PM delivered his most pompous speech to date, heaving with hypocrisy and dissemblance.

May 22 •

“Ever absent, ever near; Still I see thee, still I hear”

The Starmer plan for closer alignment between the UK and the EU

May 7 •

Aghast at the past and a Punchestown peek.

A look back over the messages that Easter delivered this year and forward to Punchestown.

Apr 29 •

Congratulations to this year's NH Champion Trainer, Mr...

The juxtaposition of The Pope’s Requiem High Mass and his internment, and the excitement of the final day of the NH season will make for an interesting…

Apr 26 •

Is it possible that Trump actually has an economic policy?

I might be marginally right of Nige and very right of Our Dave, but that does not make me a Trump apologist.

Apr 25 •

The Papal Stakes

Runners and Riders

Apr 24 •

Will they vote for more... or less?

Yes, it's The Conclave show.

Apr 22 •

A Look Back Aghast

What with Cheltenham, the back, the knee, the shoulder (Xray now says a fractured collar bone), my near single-handed support of the entire…

Mar 25 •

Left, Right, Left, Right...

I received a plaintive note from a correspondent in Minneapolis this week, who as I write will have just had another 200m of snow dumped on his drive.

Mar 5 •

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