If you come pop me a private mail. I’ll probably be here at Christmas. (View Post)

When The King is indisposed or out of the country, his responsibilities are assumed by 5 Counsellors of State: his wife, and the four next in line to the throne over the age of 21. This now includes … (View Post)

Yes, but that’s the job. As noted above, it’s a ghastly thing, but that’s the bargain. (View Post)

Someone mentioned upthread that Putin may scale down his ambitions to “the Donbass”. But Russia already look to be retreating from northern Donbass back toward the frontier pre-February. This is an a… (View Post)

Probably. It’s quite funny how Anglo-Americanism is the ancestry that dare not speak it’s name. Yet New England is so weirdly English and fundamentally American at the same time. (View Post)