Hmm - I'm not sure about that debt management profile. If we'd invested in the 10 years before COVID we might have found that debt much easier to pay off, with it representing a smaller proportion of… (View Post)

At the very least. They sprayed a nerve agent around a British town and chucked it in a bin. We should feel humiliated and ashamed that we did so little in response. (View Post)

Yep, that's what I'm suggesting. Unfortunately, we'll always wriggle out of taking the difficult decision so we can look forward to Russia disrupting our economies and democracies for years to come. (View Post)

Shoot them down. Link sabotage like this to direct, limited but overt action in Ukraine. The alternative is to simply let Putin do what he wants. (View Post)

The most dangerous thing Europe has done over the last decade is let Russia do stuff like this without a response. Now we have no idea where the line will be drawn, and so the risk of miscalculation … (View Post)