Author Archives: bernardporter2013

I imagine that Donald Trump will go down as the worst President in American history (any other candidates?); except by those who believe that his – yes – considerable achievements will put him up there among the Gods. He’s already … Continue reading →

Of course the suggestion that Israel was behind Trump’s attack on Iran fits in with a venerable anti-Semitic trope – the one that attributes all the world’s wars to ‘the Jews’ – and is likely therefore to encourage accusations of … Continue reading →

A lot of people are asking this now. It could be grounds for his removal from office. Personally, I can see a certain perverse logic in his statements and actions up to now, and even a fairly sane explanation for … Continue reading →

That date this year will mark the 250th anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence – as every educated American knows. That is, apart from today’s American President; who has a copy of it hanging in his Oval Office, but … Continue reading →

The Sweden Democrat Party (Sverigedemokraterna), far to the political Right, vigorously anti-immigration, and until recently publicly cold-shouldered by all the other parties, has now been allowed into the Centre-Right coalition government, with its leader, Jimmie Åkesson, landing the post of … Continue reading →

NATO is a defensive alliance, not an offensive one. Trump should be aware of that, before chiding the other NATO nations for not supporting his war of choice against Iran.

I’ve just turned 85; about 35 years longer than I ever imagined, based on the fact – irrelevant of course – that my father died in his fifties. I’ve been going through obituaries in Dagens Nyheter to see what age … Continue reading →

You don’t have to be good to be famous in history. (Obviously.) Which is encouraging news for Donald J Trump, if his universally acknowledged narcissism stretches that far into the future. One wonders whether Hitler would be altogether disappointed with … Continue reading →

It’s interesting to see how both the USA’s and the UK’s ‘Conservative’ parties seem to be collapsing today. That’s because the word ‘conservative’, literally and historically, must mean ‘conserving’ things – or keeping them roughly as they are; and neither … Continue reading →

How many of you have been bombarded recently – once or twice daily, in my case – with reports on Facebook of 3i/Atlas’s progress through our solar system, artificially guided by someone or something, and on a mission that its … Continue reading →