When Donald Trump will be sending Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) agents to blue, sanctuary states to solicit help from local sheriffs and other police forces, the only response he may get is ...

"Elegant" is important for successful innovation, as two recent energy examples show. In one an elegant advance appeared out of the blue, surprisingly, unexpectedly, rapidly dominating the competition ...

Energised electrons (electricity) are devout followers of the Laws of Nature; they do not bend to any ideology, fashion nor to any act of a parliament. Ideologies have to bend to the Laws of Nature ...

Saudi Arabia's state-owned international news channel Al Arabiya has denied me access to its website - apparently for the sin ...

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Russia’s potential Arctic-based revival will also have implications for the rise of a multi-polar world. This is a move away from the current era of dominant US supremacy to a multi-polar world in ...

Hamas' horrific October 7 attack and Israel's massive retaliatory war have fundamentally changed the dynamic of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. New political, psychological, and factual regional ...

The realities of ASEAN as a regional political grouping are not encouraging. It could be argued that the stature of ASEAN has been on a downward trajectory, since the end of Thailan's Dr Surin ...

But you can't be properly culturally Christian if you don't understand Christianity. As I have argued, Wokeism is not post-modern Marxism, but heretical Christianity. If you want to fight back against ...

This writer published a book some years ago Ending War which argued that war is an endemic aspect of human nature (with some convincing evidence). He asserts on another OLO blog, Do we have free will?

Maybe, and maybe not. As Shakespeare remarked, in a play set 44 years before the time of Christ, 'There are tides in the affairs of men.' It certainly feels like a tide has turned in our affairs.

The Arctic could become a new Mediterranean. For the first time in its history, the Arctic looks set to play a larger role in world politics. The Arctic could provide the shortest route between the ...