Any winner-takes-all election has a simple implication: If you can’t get your side elected, then you lose. If you lose, then there are consequences. This is neither good nor bad—it’s simply how it is and the same principles apply irrespective of which …
last updated: 6 September 2018; tags: fundamentals
Interference in Foreign Politics
In 2010, when I first started outlining The Murder of Henry VIII, I had an idea for a 500-year-old conspiracy theory about the murder of Henry VIII. The notion of the Russians trying to influence an election just didn’t seem that much of a stretch. The scenario …
last updated: 13 February 2018; people: Georgi Markov Alexander Litvinenko Boniface tags: The Murder of Henry VIII Westphalian Settlement ricin cold war Bulgaria