Recent content by Kirkhill

In terms of getting out in front of the parade two observations Net Zero - many of the governments influenced by the progressive movement to drive towards Net Zero, having discovered that they are no longer leading the parade and are in danger of being run over by it, are soft-pedalling their...

Until, as Maggie noted, government runs out of other peoples' money. The good news for the government is that by moving to electronic currency they can skip over the step of debasing the currency and devalue it at will on an ongoing basis. The bad news is that, eventually, they will still...

This has been posted previously but not recently This is what the Brits are buying. https://www.knds.de/en/systems-products/wheeled-vehicles/artillery/rch-155/ 54 km range, 30 rounds, 9 rounds per minute, Multiple Round Simultaneous Impact, Fire on the Move - 3-4 minutes of fire on board.

I'm afraid I have difficulty with the word "stupid" in any context. I don't think it does much to resolve disputes.

The key word, IMO, is "belief". Do you believe the witness in the box? Do you believe the lawyer for the plaintiff or that of the defendant? Do you believe the Judge applied the law correctly? Do you believe the jury came to the right decision? Do you believe you would have come to the same...

Are people that disagree with us necessarily stupid? Or do they just have different priorities? Do they value things differently? Perhaps their kid's birthday cake is a higher priority than reducing the temperature at some point in the future.

Further to "The Company You Keep" David Frost on Tony Blair's Meritocracy. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/25/tony-blair-offers-a-terrifying-glimpse-into-our-future/ You have to convince the 10,000 that your answer is not only the right answer but that it will be beneficial to most...

We're not landing vehicles in Malaga to fight in Latvia. But the Spanish have vehicles in Malaga that can move by road to Latvia, Nordkapp, Kyiv and Istanbul. That was the reason the Brits decided to buy the Saxons, so that they could get from Dover to the Inner German Border by road. I...

Tom Mulcair on Trudeau's budget In the interview he references Mark Carney as being an alternative and how he is raising his profile. One platform that Tom mentions is an outfit called Canada 2020. This mob was referenced in Macleans some years back...

Hope from Downunder.

Although wheeled vehicles are usually associated with lighter vehicles that can be transported by air I think that one of the other attractions for them in the European context is that they can exploit the 8,000,000 km of roads at pace without intruding on the railways. The tracked vehicles...

Here's the funny bit. Those 10,000 are going to have opinions regardless what you think of them. And those opinions will inform their actions. Regardless of what you think of them.

What is it like to feel that you are in control? That the world is ordered and understandable? Seven decades and I can honestly say that I have never felt in control. My world has always been chaotic. Along for the ride.

Starting with trying to ride astride. In a sensible world "stallions" would ride side saddle and "mares" would ride astride. It hurts.

I don't crave that world. My sense is that that is the default world of the authoritarians and that everything we rely on to guarantee our democracy is a veneer. I take comfort in the knowledge that entropy wins every time. Authority cannot impose order indefinitely