It dictates that the West needs to give Ukraine just enough help to resist the Russian occupation and grind Russia down rather than imposing such defeats on the Russians that Putin might feel that re… (View Post)

You're over-interpreting my post. I'm certainly not suggesting that Russia should be allowed to get away with anything, and I think the Western approach in resisting Russia's invasion has been broadl… (View Post)

In a somewhat unusual turn of events, I am currently employed by my still teenage, university student son. So I am now his responsibility :-) (View Post)

If it were a challenge, we might just about be able to do it. James Hansen once calculated that if we were to burn all the extractable fossil fuels quickly enough, we could trigger a runaway greenhou… (View Post)

Another Brexit vision sadly turns out to be a mirage: 3 December 2020: The government has unveiled plans to ban the export of live animals for slaughter and fattening. The proposals form part of an e… (View Post)