No. Putin had almost certainly decided to invade Ukraine before Biden's dismal fiasco in Afghanistan. That was in the summer of 2021, while Putin probably took the decision to invade the previou… (View Post)

You do pay taxes on your UK income whether or not you're a UK resident, offsetting local taxes and subject to double taxation treaties, which are extremely complicated and not worth discussing h… (View Post)

Wikipedia, as a 5 second google shows. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_New_Brunswick_general_election Just eyeballing the opinion polls in that wikipedia article, it seems that most of the decline… (View Post)

Just had lunch with a former colleague of mine who works at the Treasury. He was very glad when Labour took over as the last government hadn't gone anywhere for years but is now pretty horrified… (View Post)

Which is bizarre because Trump is a one-man white collar crime wave on his own. (View Post)