Dean M Thomson

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May 2025

The Vice President Who Denied Munich
J.D. Vance claims to mend fences with Europe—but his record of far-right flirtation and disdain for democracy speaks louder than his words.
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Steady as She Goes—Into Stagnation
John Swinney’s SNP has traded ambition for caution while Scotland’s real problems fester. With platitudes, distractions, and cherry-picked stats…
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Reform’s War on Woke Is Already Falling Apart
Farage’s foot soldiers vowed to sack diversity officers, crush leftist elites, and defend ‘British values’. Now in power, they can’t even find the…
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Reform’s Revolution: Nationalist, Populist — and Politically Unstable
Reform UK Voters Want a Tougher, Simpler Britain — But Their Demands Don’t Add Up
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April 2025

The Realignment That Could Remake the Scottish Right
Reform’s success will depend on whether it can evolve beyond populism, and protest—and offer a credible, Scottish, answer to centre-right discontent.
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Trump’s Trade War Is Backfiring — And the Dollar Might Be Next
A tariff war, collapsing bond markets, and global panic — America’s economic backbone is under siege, and the world may be forced to pay the price for…
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Make Eurasia Great Again
What began as Trumpian economic warfare has become global realignment—with Britain, China, and the EU emerging more agile than expected.
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Did Trump Take the Tariff Formula From ChaptGPT?
Not only is the 'reciprocal tariff formula' equation not reciprocal, it appears to have been taken from ChatGPT.
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March 2025

National Security? Trump Officials Prefer Group Chats & Emojis
Senior Trump officials accidentally texted their war plans to a senior journalist, while flexing like teenage incels about how much they hate their…
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Nicola Sturgeon: Scotland’s Miss Havisham
Trapped in the past, fixated on lost dreams, and presiding over a decaying house—how Sturgeon’s legacy mirrors Dickens’ tragic spinster.
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The Screwtape Doctrine: How Trumplandia Devours Its Own
If C.S. Lewis’s Screwtape were to take up political consulting, he would feel right at home in Donald Trump's White House.
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