"A report by the campaign group Windrush Against Sewage Pollution (Wasp) has found that upgrading a sewage works serving the Oxford area will cost £435m, more than 10 times the £40m cost quoted when the project was proposed. The sewage works is expected to serve between 255,000 and 267,000 people.
In comparison, it cost £29m to build a new sewage works in Assens, Denmark, where the cost of living is on average 13% above that of the UK and the cost of water and sewerage is one of the highest in Europe. It was designed to cater for a population of 100,000, with the capacity to upgrade to 150,000. Sewage treatment works cost less to build in the US, too, where the benchmark cost for a new plant serving approximately a million people is £248m."
Is there an unbiased source for that estimate?
The £435m ? I believe it comes directly from Thames Water.
Miliband poised to charge homes in South more for electricity
The Energy Secretary has been weighing up whether to push ahead with zonal pricing, which would split the country’s single national power market into different regions
Like NHS , at present we produce all the cheap energy which goes to London and comes back at multiple times the price. Suck it up. Southern subsidy junkies
How is this like the NHS? There is now a separate NHS England and NHS Scotland.
The location of Nissan's plant (and the fact that they have the capability to build large scale battery storage), mean they would be ideally situated to benefit from zonal pricing of electricity. ...Alan Johnson, the senior vice president for manufacturing, supply chain and Purchasing for Nissan’s Africa, Middle East, India, Europe and Oceania operations, told members of the House of Commons’ Business and Trade Committee that the Sunderland factory “pays more for its electricity than any other Nissan plant in the world”...
An extremely good example of how it might work.
We desperately need to find ways to incentivise manufacturing and investment in the poorer parts of the country. It is frankly incredible we have not done this already. Pre Brexit such possibilities got bogged down in EU competition law. That should no longer be the case.
Zonal pricing of electricity might be a part of that.
Couldn't be clearer he actively supports Russia, not just doesn't want to support Ukraine.
Not really, if he was he would be sending arms and funds to Moscow.
Instead he is leaving the rest of NATO to fund Zelensky while he focuses on his economic war with China which he see as the real threat to the US not his fellow conservative white male and nationalist Putin
Miliband poised to charge homes in South more for electricity
The Energy Secretary has been weighing up whether to push ahead with zonal pricing, which would split the country’s single national power market into different regions
Like NHS , at present we produce all the cheap energy which goes to London and comes back at multiple times the price. Suck it up. Southern subsidy junkies
Bollocks. Wind farms in Scotland are coining it from constraint payments that the whole country (including Scotland) pays through green levies on electricity bills. Scotland's green energy revolution is a complete scam.
US law forbids recognition of Russian sovereignty in Crimea, without the approval of Congress.
US law does not apply to Trump. We know that by now.
Jul 28, 2018, then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo: "Today, the Trump administration is releasing what we’re calling the Crimea Declaration. ... I want to assure this committee that the U.S. does not and will not recognize the Kremlin’s purported annexation of Crimea." https://x.com/OstapYarysh/status/1915067818510356847
A judge has ordered that Scottish schools must provide single-sex lavatories for pupils after parents won a legal fight against a council which insisted on installing only gender-neutral facilities.
In a case hailed as the “first of many” in which the rights of women and girls will be upheld following last week’s Supreme Court ruling, Scottish Borders council conceded it had been wrong to flout the law by installing no sex-segregated bathrooms at the new Earlston Primary School.
Lady Ross KC said she would issue a declarator, a court order, making legal obligations on Scottish state schools clear after Sean Stratford and Leigh Hurley brought a judicial review over their concerns around transgender policies at Earlston, where their son Ethan, eight, was a pupil.
Miliband poised to charge homes in South more for electricity
The Energy Secretary has been weighing up whether to push ahead with zonal pricing, which would split the country’s single national power market into different regions
Like NHS , at present we produce all the cheap energy which goes to London and comes back at multiple times the price. Suck it up. Southern subsidy junkies
Bollocks. Wind farms in Scotland are coining it from constraint payments that the whole country (including Scotland) pays through green levies on electricity bills. Scotland's green energy revolution is a complete scam.
A judge has ordered that Scottish schools must provide single-sex lavatories for pupils after parents won a legal fight against a council which insisted on installing only gender-neutral facilities.
In a case hailed as the “first of many” in which the rights of women and girls will be upheld following last week’s Supreme Court ruling, Scottish Borders council conceded it had been wrong to flout the law by installing no sex-segregated bathrooms at the new Earlston Primary School.
Lady Ross KC said she would issue a declarator, a court order, making legal obligations on Scottish state schools clear after Sean Stratford and Leigh Hurley brought a judicial review over their concerns around transgender policies at Earlston, where their son Ethan, eight, was a pupil.
My daughter's tiny primary school (15 years ago) didn't have segregated bathrooms for pre-reception and reception: it was cubicles only. I think it was simply a space thing - the building with those two years in was separate from the rest of the school, and didn't have room. My (four year old) daughter was always very indignant that the boys managed to pee all over the seat. Which I had a great deal of sympathy for.
Couldn't be clearer he actively supports Russia, not just doesn't want to support Ukraine.
Not really, if he was he would be sending arms and funds to Moscow.
Instead he is leaving the rest of NATO to fund Zelensky while he focuses on his economic war with China which he see as the real threat to the US not his fellow conservative white male and nationalist Putin
Miliband poised to charge homes in South more for electricity
The Energy Secretary has been weighing up whether to push ahead with zonal pricing, which would split the country’s single national power market into different regions
yaba daba doo ours should plummet if honesty prevails, but I will not hold my breath.
Yep, Scotland should be significantly cheaper. I guess they would go for a diluted version though, rather than a price that actually reflects transmission costs.
It's difficult to see any downsides. Regional pricing does two things - it reduces transmission costs by incentivising consumption closer to generation, and stimulates generation YIMBYism.
While England banned onshore wind for 9 years, Scotland ploughed on regardless. Why shouldn't people in Scotland, who have embraced new power generation, not benefit? And given so much English generation is near some of the poorest areas, like Teesside, I'd hope you will get some economic levelling up as a result of this cheap energy.
There's nothing wrong with the principle. It's just being implemented selectively.
If electricity should be priced regionally, how about adjusting public sector wages to reflect different costs of living by region? That would mean that northern public sector workers might get 20-50% less than those in the south. The unions would be up in arms, so it won't happen. And why should the uniform postal tariff survive? Also rural broadband - why shouldn't people who live on isolated Yorkshire moors pay the full cost of getting regional connections to them?
Also council tax. It doesn't cost multiple times the amount to empty the bins of a band G property as it does to empty those of a band A property. So a far more uniform system of local taxation should be introduced - back to the poll tax. Income tax, too. The better off use fewer public services than the great unwashed, educating their kids privately and using private health care. They should surely pay less tax not more.
Miliband is just targeting this specific subsidy because it will milk the people who don't vote for him yet more than they already are. If it were the other way around, you can bet the idea would have been dead on arrival.
But hopefully if this idea is adopted, ALL other cross-subsidies will unwind. And for a party that is based on stealing from the rich, they may well rue the day.
A pedant writes, surely it is easier to collect bins from lower band properties (or canvass them) because there is not as far to walk between each home.
Miliband poised to charge homes in South more for electricity
The Energy Secretary has been weighing up whether to push ahead with zonal pricing, which would split the country’s single national power market into different regions
Like NHS , at present we produce all the cheap energy which goes to London and comes back at multiple times the price. Suck it up. Southern subsidy junkies
Bollocks. Wind farms in Scotland are coining it from constraint payments that the whole country (including Scotland) pays through green levies on electricity bills. Scotland's green energy revolution is a complete scam.
A judge has ordered that Scottish schools must provide single-sex lavatories for pupils after parents won a legal fight against a council which insisted on installing only gender-neutral facilities.
In a case hailed as the “first of many” in which the rights of women and girls will be upheld following last week’s Supreme Court ruling, Scottish Borders council conceded it had been wrong to flout the law by installing no sex-segregated bathrooms at the new Earlston Primary School.
Lady Ross KC said she would issue a declarator, a court order, making legal obligations on Scottish state schools clear after Sean Stratford and Leigh Hurley brought a judicial review over their concerns around transgender policies at Earlston, where their son Ethan, eight, was a pupil.
My daughter's tiny primary school (15 years ago) didn't have segregated bathrooms for pre-reception and reception: it was cubicles only. I think it was simply a space thing - the building with those two years in was separate from the rest of the school, and didn't have room. My (four year old) daughter was always very indignant that the boys managed to pee all over the seat. Which I had a great deal of sympathy for.
At my dot com startup the women sent round an email – stop pissing on the floor!!
I've never disliked anyone more, it makes it hard to make any kind of objective judgements.
I actually dislike more those people who despite all the evidence said Trump would be better for Ukraine than Biden/Harris.
To be fair: the question raised by @williamglenn (and others) was not a bad one. What had Trump actually done in his first administration that was so particularly pro-Putin and pro-Russia?
And the answer is not a lot.
While the rhetoric was reasonably friendly, he didn't dismantle any of the Obama era restrictions on Russia.
It's only now, in the second term, that he's really jumped the shark.
Zonal pricing is an excellent idea and shows Labour is not a party of the south.
Fixing the National Grid would be an even better idea.
They are not alternatives, or equivalents.
It's simply not possible to build a grid in any reasonable timeframe, or at a reasonable cost, which can deliver the (currently wasted) surplus power generated by renewables to any location in the country.
That is the basic case for zonal pricing.
Improving the grid is a necessary, but largely separate matter.
Have we noted that today is the 175th anniversary of Wordsworth's death? The greatest Cumbrian of all.
It must be quite a few years ago now I went to the funeral of the long serving "Independent" councillor for Grasmere a truly redoubtable lady, a lady who was in no doubt as to her own pre-eminence within Grasmere, the Lake District and England as a whole. As we passed Wordsworth's grave and associated memorial another senior councillor asked the Vicar whether they intended to move it forwards or backwards to make way for the inevitable memorial for Mrs B
I've never disliked anyone more, it makes it hard to make any kind of objective judgements.
I actually dislike more those people who despite all the evidence said Trump would be better for Ukraine than Biden/Harris.
To be fair: the question raised by @williamglenn (and others) was not a bad one. What had Trump actually done in his first administration that was so particularly pro-Putin and pro-Russia?
And the answer is not a lot.
While the rhetoric was reasonably friendly, he didn't dismantle any of the Obama era restrictions on Russia.
It's only now, in the second term, that he's really jumped the shark.
The shithousery he and the GOP engaged over funding support for Ukraine was a huge red flag that he was not going to be an ally of Ukraine.
I've never disliked anyone more, it makes it hard to make any kind of objective judgements.
I actually dislike more those people who despite all the evidence said Trump would be better for Ukraine than Biden/Harris.
To be fair: the question raised by @williamglenn (and others) was not a bad one. What had Trump actually done in his first administration that was so particularly pro-Putin and pro-Russia?
And the answer is not a lot.
While the rhetoric was reasonably friendly, he didn't dismantle any of the Obama era restrictions on Russia.
It's only now, in the second term, that he's really jumped the shark.
In the first term he illegally threatened to halt aid to Ukraine, to the point of getting impeached.
Oh, incidentally, Happy St George's Day! At least to all those that celebrate of course! Whilst ensuring that dragons are treated with respect and given dignity in their everyday dragoning. That should cover all bases.
It's a little early, as St George's Day is on Monday 28th April this year.
Saints days are not celebrated in the weeks before and after Easter Sunday.
I've never disliked anyone more, it makes it hard to make any kind of objective judgements.
I actually dislike more those people who despite all the evidence said Trump would be better for Ukraine than Biden/Harris.
To be fair: the question raised by @williamglenn (and others) was not a bad one. What had Trump actually done in his first administration that was so particularly pro-Putin and pro-Russia?
And the answer is not a lot.
While the rhetoric was reasonably friendly, he didn't dismantle any of the Obama era restrictions on Russia.
It's only now, in the second term, that he's really jumped the shark.
The shithousery he and the GOP engaged over funding support for Ukraine was a huge red flag that he was not going to be an ally of Ukraine.
edit - Also did you forget the first impeachment?
With all due respect, the first impeachment was about him trying to get Ukraine to smear Hunter Biden (and using the threat of removing aid), rather than about Russia per se.
Interesting PMQs on trans. I'd say a win on points for Badenoch, but actually they were ripping real chunks out of each other for a while. For a bit, she sort of faltered and he seemed to gain the upper hand by going hard on her record (or lack of) in Government, but then she defended her record pretty robustly and seemed to get better after that. In the end the territory was too uphill for Starmer. He tried to go for the jugular with how Kemi was going to be unseated by a Jenrick/Farage coalition but it didn't work for me because it was so totally unrelated to the questions Badenoch asked that he looked very evasive.
The look Duffield gave him was pure class too. The Tories are clearly courting her and it wouldn't be a huge surprise if she joined them. Not sure she'd keep her seat mind.
Interesting how the border areas of Canada - the ones that are going to get invaded by Trump - are still voting Conservative.
Damned crypto-yankees...
The bit that no-one talks about is how pissed many in the prairie provinces are that Trudeau didn't build a Canadian pipeline to export their oil out (meaning that had to do it south to the Americans and take a heavy haircut) which led to some provincial leaders threatening that they might conceivably support 'closer' relations with the USA in future, if things didn't change at a Federal level.
I've never disliked anyone more, it makes it hard to make any kind of objective judgements.
I actually dislike more those people who despite all the evidence said Trump would be better for Ukraine than Biden/Harris.
To be fair: the question raised by @williamglenn (and others) was not a bad one. What had Trump actually done in his first administration that was so particularly pro-Putin and pro-Russia?
And the answer is not a lot.
While the rhetoric was reasonably friendly, he didn't dismantle any of the Obama era restrictions on Russia.
It's only now, in the second term, that he's really jumped the shark.
The shithousery he and the GOP engaged over funding support for Ukraine was a huge red flag that he was not going to be an ally of Ukraine.
edit - Also did you forget the first impeachment?
With all due respect, the first impeachment was about him trying to get Ukraine to smear Hunter Biden (and using the threat of removing aid), rather than about Russia per se.
But what about the holding up the funding last year?
Interesting situation in Canada. It's a bad picture in sum for the conservatives, but isn't the most recent development that the tide is ebbing a bit on Carney?
Interesting situation in Canada. It's a bad picture in sum for the conservatives, but isn't the most recent development that the tide is ebbing a bit on Carney?
That was probably inevitable given he seemed to have a very positive opening, going for an immediate GE may have been a very good move if so.
Still 5 days to go till the election in Canada but the polls have been quite stable for weeks .
If the Libs do go onto win a majority it will go down as one of the most astonishing turnarounds in recent western election history .
The CPC was constantly over 20 points ahead as recently as early January , then Trudeau resigned , at the same time Trumps unhinged attacks on Canada became daily news and then the tariffs.
And people shouldn’t underestimate the Carney factor . His calmness , economic experience and lack of bells and whistles has made a reassuring presence for a good section of the Canadian public .
Trump's peace deal: 1) russia gets Crimea occupation legalised 2) russia gets Donbas, Kherson, Zaporizhzhya occupation tolerated 3) russia gets economic boost from the U.S. 4) Ukraine transfers 50% of natural resources to Trump 5) Ukraine praises Trump. Have I missed something? https://nitter.poast.org/sumlenny/status/1914986599969964423#m
The location of Nissan's plant (and the fact that they have the capability to build large scale battery storage), mean they would be ideally situated to benefit from zonal pricing of electricity. ...Alan Johnson, the senior vice president for manufacturing, supply chain and Purchasing for Nissan’s Africa, Middle East, India, Europe and Oceania operations, told members of the House of Commons’ Business and Trade Committee that the Sunderland factory “pays more for its electricity than any other Nissan plant in the world”...
An extremely good example of how it might work.
We desperately need to find ways to incentivise manufacturing and investment in the poorer parts of the country. It is frankly incredible we have not done this already. Pre Brexit such possibilities got bogged down in EU competition law. That should no longer be the case.
I suspect the human capital isn't there and the economic and transport geography poor.
You can get there, as Manchester has revitalised, but it takes 30 years.
A judge has ordered that Scottish schools must provide single-sex lavatories for pupils after parents won a legal fight against a council which insisted on installing only gender-neutral facilities.
In a case hailed as the “first of many” in which the rights of women and girls will be upheld following last week’s Supreme Court ruling, Scottish Borders council conceded it had been wrong to flout the law by installing no sex-segregated bathrooms at the new Earlston Primary School.
Lady Ross KC said she would issue a declarator, a court order, making legal obligations on Scottish state schools clear after Sean Stratford and Leigh Hurley brought a judicial review over their concerns around transgender policies at Earlston, where their son Ethan, eight, was a pupil.
My daughter's tiny primary school (15 years ago) didn't have segregated bathrooms for pre-reception and reception: it was cubicles only. I think it was simply a space thing - the building with those two years in was separate from the rest of the school, and didn't have room. My (four year old) daughter was always very indignant that the boys managed to pee all over the seat. Which I had a great deal of sympathy for.
Interesting PMQs on trans. I'd say a win on points for Badenoch, but actually they were ripping real chunks out of each other for a while. For a bit, she sort of faltered and he seemed to gain the upper hand by going hard on her record (or lack of) in Government, but then she defended her record pretty robustly and seemed to get better after that. In the end the territory was too uphill for Starmer. He tried to go for the jugular with how Kemi was going to be unseated by a Jenrick/Farage coalition but it didn't work for me because it was so totally unrelated to the questions Badenoch asked that he looked very evasive.
The look Duffield gave him was pure class too. The Tories are clearly courting her and it wouldn't be a huge surprise if she joined them. Not sure she'd keep her seat mind.
I hope she doesn't. She shouldnt have stood if she was so anti Labour in the first place.
Interesting situation in Canada. It's a bad picture in sum for the conservatives, but isn't the most recent development that the tide is ebbing a bit on Carney?
That was probably inevitable given he seemed to have a very positive opening, going for an immediate GE may have been a very good move if so.
It is probably just whistling a happy tune from conservatives, but I read in the Speccie that a social media photo of an older man making obscene finger gestures (Carney supporter) has been outraging people and turning them away from the liberals. I don't immediately see why.
North America - Wisconsin makes OK Brie, otherwise no cheese, lol
Australasia - no cheese except some nice goat stuff in Victoria, but really - no cheese, lol
Africa - no cheese, lol
Eastern Europe - no cheese, lol
Western Europe - OMFG THE CHEESE!
Asia - no cheese, lol
As a non traveller I am genuinely surprised. I had a sense cheese would not be a big thing in tropical regions, but assumed it would be excellent in pretty much every region.
Still 5 days to go till the election in Canada but the polls have been quite stable for weeks .
If the Libs do go onto win a majority it will go down as one of the most astonishing turnarounds in recent western election history .
The CPC was constantly over 20 points ahead as recently as early January , then Trudeau resigned , at the same time Trumps unhinged attacks on Canada became daily news and then the tariffs.
And people shouldn’t underestimate the Carney factor . His calmness , economic experience and lack of bells and whistles has made a reassuring presence for a good section of the Canadian public .
The current data continues to paint a positive picture for the Liberals. The daily Nanos rolling poll suggests an eight point Liberal lead in Ontario and an eighteen point lead in Quebec.
Basically, the collapse of the NDP and to an extent Bloc Quebecois is going to work to the benefit of the Liberals as they will gain more ridings from those two parties than they are likely to lose to the Conservatives. Whether Carney has an overall majority or not, he's likely to finish much closer to 172 than Poilievre and could well form a minority administration.
Trump's peace deal: 1) russia gets Crimea occupation legalised 2) russia gets Donbas, Kherson, Zaporizhzhya occupation tolerated 3) russia gets economic boost from the U.S. 4) Ukraine transfers 50% of natural resources to Trump 5) Ukraine praises Trump. Have I missed something? https://nitter.poast.org/sumlenny/status/1914986599969964423#m
Still 5 days to go till the election in Canada but the polls have been quite stable for weeks .
If the Libs do go onto win a majority it will go down as one of the most astonishing turnarounds in recent western election history .
The CPC was constantly over 20 points ahead as recently as early January , then Trudeau resigned , at the same time Trumps unhinged attacks on Canada became daily news and then the tariffs.
And people shouldn’t underestimate the Carney factor . His calmness , economic experience and lack of bells and whistles has made a reassuring presence for a good section of the Canadian public .
Actually, not so much. I've seen Canadian political culture before, in previous elections, and they move their votes all over the fucking place at the drop of a hat. Stability there is not. They are entirely unreliable. The Liberals were nearly wiped out in 2011 and came back to win a majority in 2015.
Ontario is where they are won or lost. If Quebec wasn't French then outside Montreal and Quebec City it'd be pretty Conservative.
This time Carney will win because he looks and sounds very Canadian but has grit- with none of Trudeau's embarrassing teenager act - and is serious enough to stand up to Trump.
Couldn't be clearer he actively supports Russia, not just doesn't want to support Ukraine.
Not really, if he was he would be sending arms and funds to Moscow.
Instead he is leaving the rest of NATO to fund Zelensky while he focuses on his economic war with China which he see as the real threat to the US not his fellow conservative white male and nationalist Putin
What you suggest Trump is doing would be a respectable position, if he was actually doing it. Divide and Conquer requires you to support the other party in what they are doing for the common good, even if you are not involved in delivering it. It absolutely does not mean undermining everything they are trying to achieve.
If we can get back ON TOPIC, it still amazes me that only western Europe makes great cheese
Yes, this is true. I was having a chat tonight with a cheese-expert friend and we decided on THE TOP TEN world cheeses, and they are all European. Cheeses that are iconic, unique and at their best delicious
Here is our top 10 list (the order is random but by nation:
Those are the ten great cheeses of the world, all western (or southern) Europe. We did have a heated debate about replacing Gruyère with Comte but we decided it was too annoying to give France FOUR cheeses and therefore let them win the world cheese cup, also Gruyère is yummy
North America - Wisconsin makes OK Brie, otherwise no cheese, lol
Australasia - no cheese except some nice goat stuff in Victoria, but really - no cheese, lol
Africa - no cheese, lol
Eastern Europe - no cheese, lol
Western Europe - OMFG THE CHEESE!
Asia - no cheese, lol
As a non traveller I am genuinely surprised. I had a sense cheese would not be a big thing in tropical regions, but assumed it would be excellent in pretty much every region.
Asia has the obvious problem that most of them are lactose intolerant. But cheese has had almost all the lactose removed - perhaps you meed a milk culture to be established before you can get to a quality cheese culture?
I know that’s tough on Spain - Manchego - and Holland - Gouda - and also Germany - that weird smoked shit - but them’s the breaks in Top Cheese Global Lists
North America - Wisconsin makes OK Brie, otherwise no cheese, lol
Australasia - no cheese except some nice goat stuff in Victoria, but really - no cheese, lol
Africa - no cheese, lol
Eastern Europe - no cheese, lol
Western Europe - OMFG THE CHEESE!
Asia - no cheese, lol
As a non traveller I am genuinely surprised. I had a sense cheese would not be a big thing in tropical regions, but assumed it would be excellent in pretty much every region.
Great cheese basically doesn’t exist outside Western Europe, it is genuinely odd the more you think about it, given that humans love cheese (see the global popularity of cheesy pizzas, cheeseburgers etc)
Europe did and does have a unique combo of culture, settlement, affluence, climate, cow pastures and even caves but still - only Western Europe??
I am fairly sure I can spin my cheese epiphany into am entire Gazette article on the Greatness of Western Europe
Trump's peace deal: 1) russia gets Crimea occupation legalised 2) russia gets Donbas, Kherson, Zaporizhzhya occupation tolerated 3) russia gets economic boost from the U.S. 4) Ukraine transfers 50% of natural resources to Trump 5) Ukraine praises Trump. Have I missed something? https://nitter.poast.org/sumlenny/status/1914986599969964423#m
Ukraine gets shafted.
The total lack of security guarantees for Ukraine makes this a non-starter. Why would they accept this deal if they expect Russia to re-arm and invade again in a few years time?
I know that’s tough on Spain - Manchego - and Holland - Gouda - and also Germany - that weird smoked shit - but them’s the breaks in Top Cheese Global Lists
In idle moments I sometimes wonder what Dutch cheese is for. I don't suppose they eat it do they?
Interesting situation in Canada. It's a bad picture in sum for the conservatives, but isn't the most recent development that the tide is ebbing a bit on Carney?
That was probably inevitable given he seemed to have a very positive opening, going for an immediate GE may have been a very good move if so.
It is probably just whistling a happy tune from conservatives, but I read in the Speccie that a social media photo of an older man making obscene finger gestures (Carney supporter) has been outraging people and turning them away from the liberals. I don't immediately see why.
Just trying to work out which of our regulars are on holiday..
Each B2 bomber, when it was made, cost more than the equivalent weight of gold.
(I have just checked this, and it seems right. Each bomber, with project costs included, cost around $1 billion in 1990. At that time, 71,000 kg of gold cost just under $1 billion.)
If we can get back ON TOPIC, it still amazes me that only western Europe makes great cheese
Yes, this is true. I was having a chat tonight with a cheese-expert friend and we decided on THE TOP TEN world cheeses, and they are all European. Cheeses that are iconic, unique and at their best delicious
Here is our top 10 list (the order is random but by nation:
Those are the ten great cheeses of the world, all western (or southern) Europe. We did have a heated debate about replacing Gruyère with Comte but we decided it was too annoying to give France FOUR cheeses and therefore let them win the world cheese cup, also Gruyère is yummy
Gruyère beats Comte for me. Epoisses should be at the very top of the list. If I die eating Epoisses, I will die a happy man. Cheddar needs to be Vintage Cornish Cheddar. There are a lot of meh cheeses that call themselves cheddar. Edit: I was going to nominate Isle of Mull, but it’s basically just an extremely good cheddar.
North America - Wisconsin makes OK Brie, otherwise no cheese, lol
Australasia - no cheese except some nice goat stuff in Victoria, but really - no cheese, lol
Africa - no cheese, lol
Eastern Europe - no cheese, lol
Western Europe - OMFG THE CHEESE!
Asia - no cheese, lol
As a non traveller I am genuinely surprised. I had a sense cheese would not be a big thing in tropical regions, but assumed it would be excellent in pretty much every region.
Great cheese basically doesn’t exist outside Western Europe, it is genuinely odd the more you think about it, given that humans love cheese (see the global popularity of cheesy pizzas, cheeseburgers etc)
Europe did and does have a unique combo of culture, settlement, affluence, climate, cow pastures and even caves but still - only Western Europe??
I am fairly sure I can spin my cheese epiphany into am entire Gazette article on the Greatness of Western Europe
I know that’s tough on Spain - Manchego - and Holland - Gouda - and also Germany - that weird smoked shit - but them’s the breaks in Top Cheese Global Lists
In idle moments I sometimes wonder what Dutch cheese is for. I don't suppose they eat it do they?
it was invented as a replacement for car parts when there’s a rubber shortage, but I think during the war they started to eat it out of necessity, and therefore developed like a liking, as with Cambodians eating spiders under the Khmer Rouge
American cheese isn’t meant to do anything but provide amusement for Europeans in Wal Mart
If we can get back ON TOPIC, it still amazes me that only western Europe makes great cheese
Yes, this is true. I was having a chat tonight with a cheese-expert friend and we decided on THE TOP TEN world cheeses, and they are all European. Cheeses that are iconic, unique and at their best delicious
Here is our top 10 list (the order is random but by nation:
Those are the ten great cheeses of the world, all western (or southern) Europe. We did have a heated debate about replacing Gruyère with Comte but we decided it was too annoying to give France FOUR cheeses and therefore let them win the world cheese cup, also Gruyère is yummy
One of the urgent things Pepys did first when the fire of London started was to bury his Parmesan.
I know that’s tough on Spain - Manchego - and Holland - Gouda - and also Germany - that weird smoked shit - but them’s the breaks in Top Cheese Global Lists
In idle moments I sometimes wonder what Dutch cheese is for. I don't suppose they eat it do they?
it was invented as a replacement for car parts when there’s a rubber shortage, but I think during the war they started to eat it out of necessity, and therefore developed like a liking, as with Cambodians eating spiders under the Khmer Rouge
American cheese isn’t meant to do anything but provide amusement for Europeans in Wal Mart
American cheese is either glue (squirty cheese) or plastic (singles).
If we can get back ON TOPIC, it still amazes me that only western Europe makes great cheese
Yes, this is true. I was having a chat tonight with a cheese-expert friend and we decided on THE TOP TEN world cheeses, and they are all European. Cheeses that are iconic, unique and at their best delicious
Here is our top 10 list (the order is random but by nation:
Those are the ten great cheeses of the world, all western (or southern) Europe. We did have a heated debate about replacing Gruyère with Comte but we decided it was too annoying to give France FOUR cheeses and therefore let them win the world cheese cup, also Gruyère is yummy
Gruyère beats Comte for me. Epoisses should be at the very top of the list. If I die eating Epoisses, I will die a happy man. Cheddar needs to be Vintage Cornish Cheddar. There are a lot of meh cheeses that call themselves cheddar. Edit: I was going to nominate Isle of Mull, but it’s basically just an extremely good cheddar.
Yep, Cheddar gets an unfair rep BECAUSE it is globally popular and has been hideously industrialised and processed and messed-about-with, but the core Platonic Cheddar - with those salty crystal bits - is an incredible cheese. Properly foundational
Interesting situation in Canada. It's a bad picture in sum for the conservatives, but isn't the most recent development that the tide is ebbing a bit on Carney?
That was probably inevitable given he seemed to have a very positive opening, going for an immediate GE may have been a very good move if so.
It is probably just whistling a happy tune from conservatives, but I read in the Speccie that a social media photo of an older man making obscene finger gestures (Carney supporter) has been outraging people and turning them away from the liberals. I don't immediately see why.
Yes, not showing up in any polling data currently. Counter intuitively, certainly from our perspective, older voters are strongly pro-Liberal and younger voters pro-Conservative. According to the latest Nanos polling, among those aged 55 and over the Liberals lead by twnety while among those aged 18-34, the Conservatives lead by seventeen.
I know that’s tough on Spain - Manchego - and Holland - Gouda - and also Germany - that weird smoked shit - but them’s the breaks in Top Cheese Global Lists
In idle moments I sometimes wonder what Dutch cheese is for. I don't suppose they eat it do they?
it was invented as a replacement for car parts when there’s a rubber shortage, but I think during the war they started to eat it out of necessity, and therefore developed like a liking, as with Cambodians eating spiders under the Khmer Rouge
American cheese isn’t meant to do anything but provide amusement for Europeans in Wal Mart
American cheese is like American coffee. Ubiquitous but tasteless. (Hawaiian coffee excepted.)
I know that’s tough on Spain - Manchego - and Holland - Gouda - and also Germany - that weird smoked shit - but them’s the breaks in Top Cheese Global Lists
In idle moments I sometimes wonder what Dutch cheese is for. I don't suppose they eat it do they?
it was invented as a replacement for car parts when there’s a rubber shortage, but I think during the war they started to eat it out of necessity, and therefore developed like a liking, as with Cambodians eating spiders under the Khmer Rouge
American cheese isn’t meant to do anything but provide amusement for Europeans in Wal Mart
American cheese is either glue (squirty cheese) or plastic (singles).
i once went into a Wal Mart in Natchez Mississippi and they had a mile long aisle devoted to cheese
Excitedly I perused it, only to discover that on the mile they had four kinds of cheese: cheddar, “Jack cheddar”, Philadelphia, and cheddar shaped like characters out of Finding Nemo
I know that’s tough on Spain - Manchego - and Holland - Gouda - and also Germany - that weird smoked shit - but them’s the breaks in Top Cheese Global Lists
In idle moments I sometimes wonder what Dutch cheese is for. I don't suppose they eat it do they?
it was invented as a replacement for car parts when there’s a rubber shortage, but I think during the war they started to eat it out of necessity, and therefore developed like a liking, as with Cambodians eating spiders under the Khmer Rouge
American cheese isn’t meant to do anything but provide amusement for Europeans in Wal Mart
American cheese is either glue (squirty cheese) or plastic (singles).
I've never had any desire to live in America.
Can't put my finger on why. Just not my cup of tea. I feel very different about Canada.
I know that’s tough on Spain - Manchego - and Holland - Gouda - and also Germany - that weird smoked shit - but them’s the breaks in Top Cheese Global Lists
In idle moments I sometimes wonder what Dutch cheese is for. I don't suppose they eat it do they?
it was invented as a replacement for car parts when there’s a rubber shortage, but I think during the war they started to eat it out of necessity, and therefore developed like a liking, as with Cambodians eating spiders under the Khmer Rouge
American cheese isn’t meant to do anything but provide amusement for Europeans in Wal Mart
American cheese is either glue (squirty cheese) or plastic (singles).
i once went into a Wal Mart in Natchez Mississippi and they had a mile long aisle devoted to cheese
Excitedly I perused it, only to discover that on the mile they had four kinds of cheese: cheddar, “Jack cheddar”, Philadelphia, and cheddar shaped like characters out of Finding Nemo
Europeans can't do crisps though.
They do paprika, salted, and that sour cream/bad breath one.
North America - Wisconsin makes OK Brie, otherwise no cheese, lol
Australasia - no cheese except some nice goat stuff in Victoria, but really - no cheese, lol
Africa - no cheese, lol
Eastern Europe - no cheese, lol
Western Europe - OMFG THE CHEESE!
Asia - no cheese, lol
As a non traveller I am genuinely surprised. I had a sense cheese would not be a big thing in tropical regions, but assumed it would be excellent in pretty much every region.
Great cheese basically doesn’t exist outside Western Europe, it is genuinely odd the more you think about it, given that humans love cheese (see the global popularity of cheesy pizzas, cheeseburgers etc)
Europe did and does have a unique combo of culture, settlement, affluence, climate, cow pastures and even caves but still - only Western Europe??
I am fairly sure I can spin my cheese epiphany into am entire Gazette article on the Greatness of Western Europe
Lactose intolerance worldwide, % of total population.
I know that’s tough on Spain - Manchego - and Holland - Gouda - and also Germany - that weird smoked shit - but them’s the breaks in Top Cheese Global Lists
In idle moments I sometimes wonder what Dutch cheese is for. I don't suppose they eat it do they?
it was invented as a replacement for car parts when there’s a rubber shortage, but I think during the war they started to eat it out of necessity, and therefore developed like a liking, as with Cambodians eating spiders under the Khmer Rouge
American cheese isn’t meant to do anything but provide amusement for Europeans in Wal Mart
American cheese is either glue (squirty cheese) or plastic (singles).
i once went into a Wal Mart in Natchez Mississippi and they had a mile long aisle devoted to cheese
Excitedly I perused it, only to discover that on the mile they had four kinds of cheese: cheddar, “Jack cheddar”, Philadelphia, and cheddar shaped like characters out of Finding Nemo
Europeans can't do crisps though.
They do paprika, salted, and that sour cream/bad breath one.
That's it.
America spanks us Europeans like a sub in subspace when it comes to snacks, nuts and the like (as indeed does Japan, Korea, etc)
Eg Beef jerky barely exists in Europe and is horribly overpriced. Walk into any decent American gas station and they will have a trillion different kinds of jerky - ideal for chewing on long road trips
North America - Wisconsin makes OK Brie, otherwise no cheese, lol
Australasia - no cheese except some nice goat stuff in Victoria, but really - no cheese, lol
Africa - no cheese, lol
Eastern Europe - no cheese, lol
Western Europe - OMFG THE CHEESE!
Asia - no cheese, lol
As a non traveller I am genuinely surprised. I had a sense cheese would not be a big thing in tropical regions, but assumed it would be excellent in pretty much every region.
Great cheese basically doesn’t exist outside Western Europe, it is genuinely odd the more you think about it, given that humans love cheese (see the global popularity of cheesy pizzas, cheeseburgers etc)
Europe did and does have a unique combo of culture, settlement, affluence, climate, cow pastures and even caves but still - only Western Europe??
I am fairly sure I can spin my cheese epiphany into am entire Gazette article on the Greatness of Western Europe
Lactose intolerance worldwide, % of total population.
I find that infographic suspicious in multiple wheys
There used to be a fabulous cheese which I found when living in London . It was Brie with mushrooms , it almost a bit more like Camembert. Absolutely divine , there’s also a variety of Gouda nothing like what you get in supermarkets in the UK . It was a very mature hard as a brick very dark orange with a black skin. You really needed to grate it but it was delicious melted .
North America - Wisconsin makes OK Brie, otherwise no cheese, lol
Australasia - no cheese except some nice goat stuff in Victoria, but really - no cheese, lol
Africa - no cheese, lol
Eastern Europe - no cheese, lol
Western Europe - OMFG THE CHEESE!
Asia - no cheese, lol
As a non traveller I am genuinely surprised. I had a sense cheese would not be a big thing in tropical regions, but assumed it would be excellent in pretty much every region.
Great cheese basically doesn’t exist outside Western Europe, it is genuinely odd the more you think about it, given that humans love cheese (see the global popularity of cheesy pizzas, cheeseburgers etc)
Europe did and does have a unique combo of culture, settlement, affluence, climate, cow pastures and even caves but still - only Western Europe??
I am fairly sure I can spin my cheese epiphany into am entire Gazette article on the Greatness of Western Europe
Lactose intolerance worldwide, % of total population.
I find that infographic suspicious in multiple wheys
I have a real thing about people with frostbite. Completely winds me up.
Oh, incidentally, Happy St George's Day! At least to all those that celebrate of course! Whilst ensuring that dragons are treated with respect and given dignity in their everyday dragoning. That should cover all bases.
It's a little early, as St George's Day is on Monday 28th April this year.
Saints days are not celebrated in the weeks before and after Easter Sunday.
Donald Trump has accused Volodymyr Zelensky of harming peace negotiations over the war in Ukraine with "inflammatory statements".
The Ukrainian president told a news conference on Tuesday that Kyiv would not recognise Russian control of Crimea, comments which Trump said "would do nothing but prolong" the conflict.
The US president's remarks on his social media platform Truth Social came after Vice-President JD Vance said the US would "walk away" from its deal making role if the two sides did not come to an agreement.
US officials pulled out of a London meeting this week to focus on talks in Moscow, as the pace of diplomacy to end the war quickens.
Why are we continuing to placate the USA through some sort of a trade deal? Why can’t Labour read the tea leaves? If they had any sense, they’d be looking at strengthening European and Canadian relations. Trump really doesn’t give a damn, and we should stop the pretence
I know that’s tough on Spain - Manchego - and Holland - Gouda - and also Germany - that weird smoked shit - but them’s the breaks in Top Cheese Global Lists
In idle moments I sometimes wonder what Dutch cheese is for. I don't suppose they eat it do they?
Aged vintage Gouda may open your tasted buds, good stuff.
Oh, incidentally, Happy St George's Day! At least to all those that celebrate of course! Whilst ensuring that dragons are treated with respect and given dignity in their everyday dragoning. That should cover all bases.
It's a little early, as St George's Day is on Monday 28th April this year.
Saints days are not celebrated in the weeks before and after Easter Sunday.
Donald Trump has accused Volodymyr Zelensky of harming peace negotiations over the war in Ukraine with "inflammatory statements".
The Ukrainian president told a news conference on Tuesday that Kyiv would not recognise Russian control of Crimea, comments which Trump said "would do nothing but prolong" the conflict.
The US president's remarks on his social media platform Truth Social came after Vice-President JD Vance said the US would "walk away" from its deal making role if the two sides did not come to an agreement.
US officials pulled out of a London meeting this week to focus on talks in Moscow, as the pace of diplomacy to end the war quickens.
North America - Wisconsin makes OK Brie, otherwise no cheese, lol
Australasia - no cheese except some nice goat stuff in Victoria, but really - no cheese, lol
Africa - no cheese, lol
Eastern Europe - no cheese, lol
Western Europe - OMFG THE CHEESE!
Asia - no cheese, lol
As a non traveller I am genuinely surprised. I had a sense cheese would not be a big thing in tropical regions, but assumed it would be excellent in pretty much every region.
Great cheese basically doesn’t exist outside Western Europe, it is genuinely odd the more you think about it, given that humans love cheese (see the global popularity of cheesy pizzas, cheeseburgers etc)
Europe did and does have a unique combo of culture, settlement, affluence, climate, cow pastures and even caves but still - only Western Europe??
I am fairly sure I can spin my cheese epiphany into am entire Gazette article on the Greatness of Western Europe
Lactose intolerance worldwide, % of total population.
I find that infographic suspicious in multiple wheys
I have a real thing about people with frostbite. Completely winds me up.
I know that’s tough on Spain - Manchego - and Holland - Gouda - and also Germany - that weird smoked shit - but them’s the breaks in Top Cheese Global Lists
In idle moments I sometimes wonder what Dutch cheese is for. I don't suppose they eat it do they?
it was invented as a replacement for car parts when there’s a rubber shortage, but I think during the war they started to eat it out of necessity, and therefore developed like a liking, as with Cambodians eating spiders under the Khmer Rouge
American cheese isn’t meant to do anything but provide amusement for Europeans in Wal Mart
American cheese is either glue (squirty cheese) or plastic (singles).
i once went into a Wal Mart in Natchez Mississippi and they had a mile long aisle devoted to cheese
Excitedly I perused it, only to discover that on the mile they had four kinds of cheese: cheddar, “Jack cheddar”, Philadelphia, and cheddar shaped like characters out of Finding Nemo
Europeans can't do crisps though.
They do paprika, salted, and that sour cream/bad breath one.
That's it.
America spanks us Europeans like a sub in subspace when it comes to snacks, nuts and the like (as indeed does Japan, Korea, etc)
Eg Beef jerky barely exists in Europe and is horribly overpriced. Walk into any decent American gas station and they will have a trillion different kinds of jerky - ideal for chewing on long road trips
Beef jerky..food of the gods I'm sure..🤔 File under "best left in America" along with Twinkie bars..🥴💩
North America - Wisconsin makes OK Brie, otherwise no cheese, lol
Australasia - no cheese except some nice goat stuff in Victoria, but really - no cheese, lol
Africa - no cheese, lol
Eastern Europe - no cheese, lol
Western Europe - OMFG THE CHEESE!
Asia - no cheese, lol
As a non traveller I am genuinely surprised. I had a sense cheese would not be a big thing in tropical regions, but assumed it would be excellent in pretty much every region.
Great cheese basically doesn’t exist outside Western Europe, it is genuinely odd the more you think about it, given that humans love cheese (see the global popularity of cheesy pizzas, cheeseburgers etc)
Europe did and does have a unique combo of culture, settlement, affluence, climate, cow pastures and even caves but still - only Western Europe??
I am fairly sure I can spin my cheese epiphany into am entire Gazette article on the Greatness of Western Europe
Can I shock you? Except for on a pizza, I have never knowingly eaten cheese... and I even used to order pizza without it
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You can read the pressure group’s post on the topic here: https://www.windrushwasp.org/single-post/it-pays-to-cheat & there’s a link to a more detailed deep dive pdf in that blog post.
Zonal pricing is an excellent idea and shows Labour is not a party of the south.
Those who continue to fanboi Trump, on the other hand...
Instead he is leaving the rest of NATO to fund Zelensky while he focuses on his
economic war with China
which he see as the real threat to the US not his fellow conservative white male and nationalist Putin
https://www.politico.eu/article/swedish-journalist-joakim-medin-etc-faces-12-years-turkish-prison-insulting-recep-tayyip-erdogan/
https://x.com/OstapYarysh/status/1915067818510356847
In a case hailed as the “first of many” in which the rights of women and girls will be upheld following last week’s Supreme Court ruling, Scottish Borders council conceded it had been wrong to flout the law by installing no sex-segregated bathrooms at the new Earlston Primary School.
Lady Ross KC said she would issue a declarator, a court order, making legal obligations on Scottish state schools clear after Sean Stratford and Leigh Hurley brought a judicial review over their concerns around transgender policies at Earlston, where their son Ethan, eight, was a pupil.
https://www.thetimes.com/article/4e7c7355-1798-45fb-bb9b-07aca88ff612?shareToken=963e3961fb39e9dd4a7bd6d4672cef7f
"As a voter, I put my priorities on a president who's going to have the backs of our allies and hold our enemies to account."
@NikkiHaley explains why she supports Donald Trump in the 2024 election..
https://x.com/HudsonInstitute/status/1793389852903297301
And the answer is not a lot.
While the rhetoric was reasonably friendly, he didn't dismantle any of the Obama era restrictions on Russia.
It's only now, in the second term, that he's really jumped the shark.
It's simply not possible to build a grid in any reasonable timeframe, or at a reasonable cost, which can deliver the (currently wasted) surplus power generated by renewables to any location in the country.
That is the basic case for zonal pricing.
Improving the grid is a necessary, but largely separate matter.
edit - Also did you forget the first impeachment?
TL;DR: the Dems are fighting the wrong battle right now.
Saints days are not celebrated in the weeks before and after Easter Sunday.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_George's_Day#:~:text=Saint George's Day is usually,be celebrated the following Monday.
The look Duffield gave him was pure class too. The Tories are clearly courting her and it wouldn't be a huge surprise if she joined them. Not sure she'd keep her seat mind.
That's where Trump has got it from.
If the Libs do go onto win a majority it will go down as one of the most astonishing turnarounds in recent western election history .
The CPC was constantly over 20 points ahead as recently as early January , then Trudeau resigned , at the same time Trumps unhinged attacks on Canada became daily news and then the tariffs.
And people shouldn’t underestimate the Carney factor . His calmness , economic experience and lack of bells and whistles has made a reassuring presence for a good section of the Canadian public .
Trump's peace deal:
1) russia gets Crimea occupation legalised
2) russia gets Donbas, Kherson, Zaporizhzhya occupation tolerated
3) russia gets economic boost from the U.S.
4) Ukraine transfers 50% of natural resources to Trump
5) Ukraine praises Trump.
Have I missed something?
https://nitter.poast.org/sumlenny/status/1914986599969964423#m
You can get there, as Manchester has revitalised, but it takes 30 years.
North America - Wisconsin makes OK Brie, otherwise no cheese, lol
Australasia - no cheese except some nice goat stuff in Victoria, but really - no cheese, lol
Africa - no cheese, lol
Eastern Europe - no cheese, lol
Western Europe - OMFG THE CHEESE!
Asia - no cheese, lol
Basically, the collapse of the NDP and to an extent Bloc Quebecois is going to work to the benefit of the Liberals as they will gain more ridings from those two parties than they are likely to lose to the Conservatives. Whether Carney has an overall majority or not, he's likely to finish much closer to 172 than Poilievre and could well form a minority administration.
What is the world coming to ?
Ontario is where they are won or lost. If Quebec wasn't French then outside Montreal and Quebec City it'd be pretty Conservative.
This time Carney will win because he looks and sounds very Canadian but has grit- with none of Trudeau's embarrassing teenager act - and is serious enough to stand up to Trump.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=i+wondered+lonely+as+a+cloud+beer+commercial#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:00fa3f4c,vid:_Se0d3spD5o,st:0
Here is our top 10 list (the order is random but by nation:
France: Roquefort
France: Brie
France: Epoisses
Italy: Gorgonzola
Italy: Parmesan
Italy: Buffalo Mozzarella
UK: Blue Stilton
UK: Cheddar
Switzerland: Gruyère
Greece: Feta
Those are the ten great cheeses of the world, all western (or southern) Europe. We did have a heated debate about replacing Gruyère with Comte but we decided it was too annoying to give France FOUR cheeses and therefore let them win the world cheese cup, also Gruyère is yummy
Europe did and does have a unique combo of culture, settlement, affluence, climate, cow pastures and even caves but still - only Western Europe??
I am fairly sure I can spin my cheese epiphany into am entire Gazette article on the Greatness of Western Europe
(I have just checked this, and it seems right. Each bomber, with project costs included, cost around $1 billion in 1990. At that time, 71,000 kg of gold cost just under $1 billion.)
Edit: I was going to nominate Isle of Mull, but it’s basically just an extremely good cheddar.
Paneer Tank!
American cheese isn’t meant to do anything but provide amusement for Europeans in Wal Mart
Earns its place on the list, no problemo
Excitedly I perused it, only to discover that on the mile they had four kinds of cheese: cheddar, “Jack cheddar”, Philadelphia, and cheddar shaped like characters out of Finding Nemo
Can't put my finger on why. Just not my cup of tea. I feel very different about Canada.
They do paprika, salted, and that sour cream/bad breath one.
That's it.
Eg Beef jerky barely exists in Europe and is horribly overpriced. Walk into any decent American gas station and they will have a trillion different kinds of jerky - ideal for chewing on long road trips
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India has started large scale security operations in Jammu and Kashmir.
Apparently, I'm lack toes intolerant....
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/st-georges-day-moved-23-april-new-date-why-b2737877.html
On American lists you often find an entry like this
7. Blue cheese
As if that’s a precise variety of cheese in itself. “Blue”. It’s the equivalent of a top ten list of cars which has
7. Really big cars
Americans know NOTHING about cheese. NOTHING!!!
Nighty night
The Ukrainian president told a news conference on Tuesday that Kyiv would not recognise Russian control of Crimea, comments which Trump said "would do nothing but prolong" the conflict.
The US president's remarks on his social media platform Truth Social came after Vice-President JD Vance said the US would "walk away" from its deal making role if the two sides did not come to an agreement.
US officials pulled out of a London meeting this week to focus on talks in Moscow, as the pace of diplomacy to end the war quickens.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c78jx68d922o
Its a good job Zelensky name doesn't easily rhyme with English words otherwise Trump would be calling him by his nickname all the time by now.
Yeah, right.
We're about to see just how much Putin owns Trump's ass.
I camembert this.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0kx1n3xgr2o
Still not going to get anybody to buy an American car.