The strategic balance is very different today from the Cold War. Finland and Sweden are no longer neutral; Poland, the Baltics, Romania, Hungary (in extremis), Czechia, Slovakia and most of the Balka… (View Post)

When I was 30 I felt the need to dress up a bit in front of 50-year-old clients in the hope of looking serious. Nowadays I have to dress down in the hope of looking frivolous. Miraculously the client… (View Post)

If Charles has started chemo he'll be feeling like shit and there's worse to come. But it doesn't preclude a complete recovery to normal health. Eventually. (View Post)

Although, of course, the implication behind MLH was that middle-aged people were scoring their stuff free on the NHS while innocent kidz like Mick'n'Keef were getting busted for dope. Still… (View Post)

Re Tucker Carlson, if the Russians were clever they'd release Evan Gershkovich and give Carlson the kudos of bringing him home. (View Post)