I don't think anyone wants a war with Russia on here. It's just difficult to avoid the conclusion that Putin will take whatever he wants unless met by force, as we found with Turkey's … (View Post)

Fife is my weak spot. Navigating the coastal path was a series of embarrassments, the worst of which was "Burnt-is-land", for which I have no explanation or excuse. (View Post)

Not true - there is a soft G in there. You get some English people calling it King-Uhssie, but it's more like King-oohsie. It follows the pronunciation of the original Gaelic. (View Post)

I'm just using it as an example of how the link between defence and welfare spending is a bit contrived. But it's weird how fuel duty is always described as inflationary, but other taxes, b… (View Post)

We could pop taxes up to French levels, spend 9% of GDP on defence and have military expenditure 3x as high as Russia. The funniest thing about this debate is the rather blatant attempts to shoehorn … (View Post)