[Margaret Pilkington]

Yes, BJ....that is MY big worry...that folk will get bamboozled into voting JC into power...believing his promises, that he can shake the money tree and give us all a nice easy life.

As for war...I think that the possibility of some nut pressing the destruct button will always be there.
But there are many other ways to take conflict into the heart of enemy countries...and the Salisbury thing underlines that.
It is only one way to bring places to a stand still.
Biowarfare is another possibility...disseminating something like Ebola.
The authorities would be so twisted trying to deal with such a thing....and it would wipe out much of the population...there are many other diseases that would be just as horrifying.
I think we need to be more aware of the cyber attacks on services that are essential to our everyday life.

A lot of what is going on is because the west have destabilised the Middle East...the Arab Spring was not the new dawn that it was portrayed as.
There are some places where democracy is never going to be a working model because they have a tribal mentality.