I couldn't agree more. I've actually been meaning to write something like this myself. He IS a gifted writer, but I finally unsubbed from him recently -- after posting many of his articles for tens of thousands elsewhere to see -- because to me, it's not just catastrophe, but he seems to focus solely on the US and its stupidity and our stupidity (and while he's largely absolutely right, he allows for no one in the US to have a damn brain, despite the fact that I have more degrees than him, have published more books than him, probably know more about many more subjects than him, and I'm one of the dumber people I know, so while, yes, sadly most Americans do seem stupid now, especially at the top where certain people seem to have been going out of their way to kill us, after awhile glorying in our demise gets old -- especially when you prove to be a total hypocrite, as I actually pointed out to him in a couple of long comments and dared him to respond and defend himself - which he didn't - while he was busy cackling gleefully on a daily basis about the US burning down -- and I've printed out about 50 of his articles as excellent examples of writing -- he never mentions, let alone admits, that Europe has taken it on the jaw a few times this year too, and that his precious Britain (and he's from the US, mind you), which is obviously so vastly superior to the US (little argument from me -- I just want consistency and honesty, but he's proven to have an agenda), while Britain has been in the top 4 countries with the most COVID-19 cases most of the year, and is still quite high, as well as while he seems to be laughing at all the stupid Americans dying (which should tell you something about his character there), as I pointed out to him, the UK again has been in the top 5 nearly all year, so why doesn't he address that? No response. And you know what? I ran the numbers the other day. For most of the year, I ran numbers on the US and some other places, but this time I wanted proof of just how superior Britain was CURRENTLY compared to the US. Bear in mind, I know the US is a disaster, but our fatality rate has come down a huge amount thanks to the hard work of most state governments. When I published a piece on COVID-19 here in April, I wrote that the global infection rate was roughly 7% while the US was approaching 5.5%. I then ran the numbers on fatalities IF those percentages held. They have not; they've gone down. Obviously the UK has a much smaller population, but these are simple calculations any 9th grader could make. Too many Americans have and are still being infected, but our fatality rate has slipped below 2% (1.8%) now, a huge improvement over the spring and later. (Source: Johns Hopkins.) That's 307,501 deaths against 16,979,777 infections, a still shocking number (out of a total population of about 330,000,000). Meanwhile, even though countries like India, Brazil and Russia have shot past the UK, they're still #7 with 1,918,736 infections (out of population of roughly 66,000,000). They've suffered 65,618 deaths from this, placing them also at #7 in that category while showing that the UK's fatality rate per infection is a solid 3.4%, or nearly twice that of the US. I don't delight in these deaths, anywhere, anyone. I'm just trying to make a point. While he has trashed the US and laughed at our leadership stupidity and citizen stupidity, he literally REFUSES to look elsewhere, most especially at his own adopted country which has not done very well all damn year! Why should he be proud and laugh at another country, a traditional ally, when many countries around him are doing better than his own and when his country is still #7 in infections and #7 in deaths? Maybe just for once, he should write a piece on how his own country has failed pretty badly itself. I no longer view him as a quality writer and good analyst. While he certainly is skilled at each, I've come to the conclusion that he's too caught up in being an America-hating America basher to be a REAL analyst, with even a pretense at objectivity and since he doesn't even bother to hide his bias, I view him as having no more credibility than Fox News in the US, which is to say none. They tilt everything one way and one way only no matter what the news or the truth is -- which describes him. He has the talent of Martin Amis but writes like he's with the National Enquirer, which is both sad and a tremendous waste of talent. I once thought he was wasting his brain cells too, but I've sadly concluded there aren't enough to waste and there probably never were. When I want object analysis from the UK, I know where to go, and not just the media but various think tanks and elsewhere.