Diary of a Dissenter: A Week From My Window

Does it ever occur to [journaliars] to take the side of people who are not powerful and monied but actually just honest, real, honourable, loyal, and actually truly brave?

Remembering the yauza-yauza days of old

SATURDAY

I’ve been contemplating that ominous graph of US government debt I finished up with last week.

It strikes me that, if you think about the level of debt currently being accumulated by Western societies — generally about 200 per cent of their GDP, but in some cases much higher — it must surely occur to you tha…