The other factor playing against Putin, which you won't say so I will, is that there is another reason time is not in his favour. The riskiest moment for Ukraine was over a year ago when Mr You … (View Post)

Unfair to have Smith on that list without an asterisk. (View Post)

We should remember that in the Great Patriotic War that approximately a quarter of the toll were Ukrainians and approximately another quarter of the toll were other non-Russians. Ironically Russia ha… (View Post)

Yes, in 2007 both Blair and Brown were content with a long contest. Blair wanted a long goodbye. Brown was happy to take a victory lap of hustings knowing he'd be PM at the end of it. None of it… (View Post)

Because Blair and Brown wanted it to take that long, not because it had to take that long. it was also under an entirely different rulebook, remember Ed changed the rules completely. (View Post)