Category Archives: Politics

The Two Trillion Dollar Tragedy II

Posted on August 9, 2021 by davidsberry

On The Conquest of Quagmires Two days on, and three more provincial capitals in Afghanistan have fallen to the Taliban. None of these is from  the strategic trio of Herat, Khandahar or Jalalabad in the news over the weekend, Instead, … Continue reading →

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The Two Trillion Dollar Tragedy I

Posted on August 7, 2021 by davidsberry

On Lessons from Afvietmaliastan Readers un search of an upbeat and inspirational read are advised not to read on. These few hundred words are an attempt to place the slow car crash that is Afghanistan in context. If you are … Continue reading →

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The Other Sceptr’d Isle IV

Posted on August 1, 2021 by davidsberry

The Crunch (Part 4 of 5) It takes a brass neck and a boatload of optimism to predict what might occur in Ulster over the next decade. But one thing is clear: to continue the peace process and a prosperous … Continue reading →

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The Other Sceptr’d Isle III

Posted on July 30, 2021 by davidsberry

The Hiatus (Part 3 of 5) The North established their own parliament at Stormont in June 1921 and any sense of this arrangement being temporary quickly faded. Over a million Protestants ruled over 400,000 Catholics, as they had intended. Thanks … Continue reading →

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The Other Sceptr’d Isle II

Posted on July 28, 2021 by davidsberry

The History (Part 2 of 5) Post-1066, the Normans, who had made short work of England, tried their hand in Ireland, with less success. Elizabeth made a fair fist of expanding their East coast settlements in the 16th ©. The … Continue reading →

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The Other Sceptr’d Isle I

Posted on July 26, 2021 by davidsberry

The Problem (Part 1 of 5) With all the fuss over the Euro Final and the discussion of racism that ensued, nobody much noticed an item of non-news, a dog that did not bark in the night-time: celebrations of the … Continue reading →

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There’s Nothing Surer…

Posted on July 14, 2021 by davidsberry

…the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer” runs the old song. Here are some stats to back up that equally old assertion. This blog is a lift of the series of a half-dozen tweets by Tosten Bell (@TostenBell) … Continue reading →

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Fort Sumter Revisited?

Posted on July 10, 2021 by davidsberry

One hundred and sixty years ago was a seminal date in American history. There had always been tension between states in the South and those in the North. Resentment among southern slave-owning states grew with increasing pressure from the more … Continue reading →

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Gunboat Idiocy

Posted on June 25, 2021 by davidsberry

On June 23rd, H.M.S. Defender of the Royal Navy, sailed from the Ukrainian port of Odessa on passage to the Georgian port of Batumi. This would take it across the Black Sea, covering 1,000 km from Northwest to Southeast. To … Continue reading →

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Overlord? Over-hyped

Posted on June 6, 2021 by davidsberry

Today (June 6th) marks the 77th anniversary of D-Day, the invasion of Occupied Europe by the Western Allies, who subsequently fought their way across France, Belgium and into the heart of Germany to bring the Second World War to an … Continue reading →

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