Then there's the Portuguese approach... our Portuguese cleaner at work was quite surprised when I explained that British people, in general, only have one surname. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… (View Post)

No. The Ukrainians have been recognised by the Ecumenical Patriarch as independent, and as a result the Russians are no longer in full communion, and have cut off ties with Athens and Alexandria who … (View Post)

The mercantile class were the wealth-creators. Countries that preserved the aristocratic order, stagnated. I have always thought Thatcher was more Whig than Rory. (View Post)

The Russian Orthodox Church has I believe been excommunicated by the Ecumenical Patriarch for refusing to recognise the autonomy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Or something like that. (View Post)

Surely the best position is to publicly refuse to let the Ukrainians have the Polish MIGs, and then let them have them anyway. To prosecute a war you lie, you cheat, you scheme. "Truth is the fi… (View Post)