"It's a shame that the Assad regime fell, as that regime protected minorities." Comrade, it is this sort of comment that makes me wonder how much the Kremlin is paying you, as it is pu… (View Post)

They may have tried tasers. From memory, Ben Ando's excellent book on police bravery has two stories where tasers failed: one was when they tackled a man high on drugs in a tower block corridor;… (View Post)

This feels like people in Europe trying to predict the US election; we do not have insight into the views of the majority of the Russian population, nor into those people at the heart of the Kremlin. (View Post)

There was a chat on R5L last week, where one of the phone callers said something like: "We cannot fight Russia, as they have such a massive economy and are such a world power". This is utte… (View Post)

I hope he has more than one, or it will be more than a little stinky by now... (View Post)