What's next? A huge stone listing everything that's wrong with the climate? Mad Ed apparently sees himself as a combination of Greta Thunberg and the American President. Pissing away billions we don'… (View Post)

Argentina, where Milei is proving to be the greatest statesman in the democratic world, certainly since Mrs Thatcher whom he greatly admires and maybe ever. Who'd have thought that appointing someone… (View Post)

Buy a fan. They are cheap, don't use much energy, don't dry the air out, unlike aircon, and at the "heatwave" temps in this country are adequate unless you're living in a greenhouse. Also t… (View Post)

I went to Uzbekistan a few years back and really enjoyed it. I don't know what your attention span is like, but I'd say both Samarkand and Bokhara are worth another day - Khiva less so. I found the f… (View Post)

The EU already has something sort of like that with its Association Agreements, e.g. with Georgia. They could doubtless be developed further, but of course the EU would be very reluctant to allow cou… (View Post)