Category: Commentary
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Return to Sender: March 2026
Clearly the main geopolitical news story from March continues to be the ongoing conflict in the Middle East but since there is wall-to-wall coverage of this on just about every available channel, there’s little point in adding any more commentary.
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Letter from Lincoln…March 2026
No surprises to find that this month’s Letter from Lincoln is all about the economics of war, spreading out like an oil slick to pollute every other corner of the globe.
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: February 2026
February has brought the start of a new year – the fire horse of the lunar calendar – but the same problems. The Ukrainians have marked the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full scale invasion attempt. Pakistan has declared ‘open war’ on Afghanistan. And the Americans are continuing to move military assets, including two aircraft carrier…
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…February 2026
Money may well make the world go around but what happens if you don’t have any money, or you fear that tax rises and inflation will wipe out whatever surplus you do have? This is the question that many British people have been asking themselves for several months now.
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:January 2026
So, the end of January. It’s dark and we’re wearing sunglasses but the Delorean has been fired up and we’re all heading back to the future, like it or not, courtesy of the US and its President, one Donald J Trump.
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…December 2025
So, 2025 is drawing to a close and with it also the first quarter of this century. It’s already clear that the triumph of liberal democracy that shaped the second half of the last century – at least in the West – is already fading away, and that the 21st century will be much more…
Nessan Cleary 