Gulf War IV

Sir Niall Ferguson has been eagerly predicting the End of the World for the better part of two decades now, and age has not withered him - although on the other hand, the above is worth a listen.

Speaking personally for once, my own view of President Trump is that he's almost entirely useless. Until recently I thought of him as being icky, often hugely entertaining, but mostly harmless. As it happens, the Iran War is virtually the only thing he's done that I actually approve of, and even that he's managed to bugger up. His failure to send in the US Navy and Special Forces to re-open the Strait of Hormuz (if what Ferguson is saying here is true!) must surely go down as one of the greatest acts of incompetence in the history of western strategy.

And if Trump's little adventure in the Persian Gulf - the Republican Party's fourth in the last forty years - does indeed lead to yet another global recession, he deserves no better an account after his death than poor dear "wimpy" President Bush!