New Middle East and the European lesson

http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/peters-blood-borders-map/

http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/63217/jerry-z-muller/us-and-them

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/15/opinion/sunday/ross-douthat-changing-maps-in-the-mideast.html?hp&rref=opinion

Possibly a big change in India

Nobody really knows what will happen

A change?

Democracy is great because it allows you to kick out a government. Of course it doesn't guarantee that you choose a better one.

Ukraine from a distance

A detached view from China

the 2015 UK General Election

An good outlook on what we might be looking at next year

But what do they know

You might think that South Africans know something about a smaller group dominating a larger. But you'd be wrong; it is much nicer to have word games about "apartheid" and "jewish states" than to deal with reality

Farage and Neward

Leaving aide the claims of 'bottling', was this a clever move? The chattering classes think so.