He's got to go really.....

[max_tranmere]

I remember Thatcher capitalising on the Falklands win. She even organised a big military procession through London, largely to increase support for herself. This was proven by the fact she took the salute - something that is meant to be done by the Head of State.

[jj]

Yep, that's the way I see it too.
Carrington's resignation and his subsequent staements were
the evidence that really damned her over the Falklands.

[jj]

Cameron worries me in much the same way as Broon does.

To a degree the current probs. weren't of B's making [cheers
again, USA, for another 'friendly-fire' crisis....] but I doubt
DC would be any better at spotting a coming storm than GB.
The latter, for a supposed expert, seems curiously thick.
Yet another case of a man being educated beyond his intelligence.
Anyone with half a brain realises that 'endogenous growth theory'
[be it neo-classical, Doric or Ionian....] and indeed the whole of
economics in general is a half-baked pseudo-science from which
no firm predictions or hypotheses can ever be derived. The last
decent book on the subject was Adam Smith's- and most of the
time even he was only stating the bleeding obvious.
A lot like sociology, that other refuge of meagre intellects.

[jj]

?

[Jonone]

Read Nassim Nicholas Teleb

[jj]

Read him?
Can't even spell him.

[jj]

Well, if it's anthropology or ethnology I can't disagree.
"The proper study of man is man", and all that- although I prefer
Humans not be so limited in their pihilosophical aims : -)

But sociology 'proper' is so hedged about with contradictions, sheer
rubbish and impenetrable jargon that I have no truck with it all.
There's not even a clear definition of it.