By Brian Boyd Overview Update The first half of 2025 saw billions of words recorded by the monopoly media concerning the styles and foibles of various political leaders of the major powers such as Trump, Putin, Xi, Macron and Starmer. The endless optics, emphasising their spin and ramblings, are given shallow analysis of what is the real basis of growing …

By From the bin (nom de guerre) the author had a long-standing column in Neighbourhood News in the 1990s and early 2000s It’s a cliche now to say that the curse of “Interesting times” is upon us.But I can think of no more suitable way to describe the frantic first days of the 2nd Trump Presidency. If there is a …