American notes
The 1980 US presidential election campaign was characterised by warnings from the Carter White House about the impact of a…
Sound military history
Scott Fitzgerald once made the famous observation that there are no second acts in American life. Perhaps. But Mike Carlton…
The way it was
There is a test in Canberra which applies to the quality of political commentary. It is called the ‘Blue Poles’…
The useful Colonel Houses
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was determined to get the measure of Britain’s wartime prime minister Winston Churchill, and of Britain’s chances…
