The blockade of Ukraine by the Russian naval forces seems to have begun. Despite promises to Macron and indeed to Truss, there seems to be no stopping the Russian determination to launch a war in Ukr… (View Post)

OK "Nats" are "the parties that advocate Scottish independence", and while I appreciate that you left the SNP it is still a reasonable short hand. Your point about "living st… (View Post)

There you go again... It is not the case that any of the CEE states has yet acheived economic numbers anywhere close to the UK, and I have been involved in this region for over 40 years in one way or… (View Post)

Well, you can work out quite a lot from OECD, IMF and World Bank numbers and they are pretty consistent. So, while you might not like the numbers, the reality is that Scotland would need to go throug… (View Post)

Perhaps the key reason that the Tories are hanging back on putting the silver bullet into the festering zombie corpse of Johnson as PM is that this relatively trivial crisis is about to be followed b… (View Post)