No shit, Mike. But the wicked witch of the West will spend her first 3 months screwing Northern Ireland. By Christmas I think the Conservatives will be Berlin 1945.... (View Post)

The problem was that leaving meant a lot of different things to different people, there was not a clear leave choice, plenty of people who voted to leave the European Union still wanted to stay in mu… (View Post)

If we did think that WW III started 8 years ago, then the attack begun this year is probably the Barbarossa of this war. Right now it looks like Russia is finished as a great power as it descends tow… (View Post)

Well you have chosen a rather scatter gun approach to the data. Only Italy is particularly comparable to the UK economy and obviously of the smaller economies Romania is not yet a member of ERM II &a… (View Post)

Russia is clearly expecting some serious trouble. Rumours that all the young men in Smolensk Oblast are being called up, but its too little, too late. Even if Putin went for general mobilisation righ… (View Post)