Nicola chosen today to say that she is going ahead with IndyRef2 next year. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/nicola-sturgeon-confirms-plan-announce-10018461 Yesterday, while Pres Zelensky … (View Post)

It's going to make Kamala Harris's visit even more significant. Can the US really hold out on the Polish aircraft proposal now, (even if there was some gamesmanship about it.) (View Post)

If anything we should be putting more Russian culture out there. I'd recommend Lermontov's "A Hero of Our Time". (It's fairly short.) And, for music, Shostakovich's final symphony, the 15th… (View Post)

I think another factor might be that in parliamentary systems the head of Govt has to debate other parliamentarians on a regular basis and justify policy. All Biden and Macron have to do is read from… (View Post)

I think we need to be pretty brutal about cracking down on Russians, even if in some individual cases it is unfair and they could be innocent of any wrong-doing. The Russian people just have to under… (View Post)