Brexiteer propaganda yet again. Everybody knows that the Conservative Party is Putin's puppet, Brexit was his project and now we're out of the EU, we have to do what he says and the America… (View Post)

He can't have met many. I've spent years of my career dealing with them, and, like every unaccountable bureaucracy, what they mostly care about is justifying and increasing their own power … (View Post)

My Russian isn't what it was, but this account by a Russian soldier of his travails in Ukraine is book-length absolutely riveting:… (View Post)

When 44% of grades are A or A* as they were last year, they have no meaning at all. I also think there's merit in giving people percentages rather than grades, and also a grade showing their ran… (View Post)

On topic - depressing news but probably not that meaningful this far out. Nevertheless, this might help as it raised a smile from me: Facebook post by the Flat Earth Society: "The Flat Earth Soc… (View Post)