The problem for the UK is not that things are so disastrous, or even that they are so mediocre, it's that people won't accept that improving them in the long term needs sacrifices in the sh… (View Post)

No, government is a curse not a benefit, in this area as in so much else. The last thing the already state-dominated north needs is more freeloaders and parasites. In some parts of the north 70-80% o… (View Post)

I think your expectations of Putin are very unrealistic. The first five years of all three day special military operations are notoriously the worst. (View Post)

I just found out that a friend of a friend had his entire family - wife and three daughters - killed by a Russian missile strike a while ago. My friend says his friend, the father, has been dead insi… (View Post)

Of course Lady Astor set an example to everybody with her wartime courage and heroism from her St James' mansion and huge Buckinghamshire country estate. (Though in fairness wartime economy mean… (View Post)