I don't know whether the law was changed after some controversy over the zealousness of the RSPCA, but I understand that they used to have the power to bring forward criminal prosecutions relati… (View Post)

I think the point is that Russia hasn't yet endured much hardship at all during the war. In some respects the war was good for the outlying regions, as the signing-on bonuses and death payments … (View Post)

The problem for Labour with the comparison is that it was pretty easy to identify what Truss had done wrong - she'd trashed the confidence of the bond market in Britain's willingness to rep… (View Post)

Yeah, sorry about that. The AI translation of the main source I follow for Russian economic news uses sulfur, and I'm an instinctive mimic. Edit: corrected now! (View Post)

There's a difference between individual unit commanders forging documents when coercion doesn't work and a central government policy to send conscripts officially to the war. That differenc… (View Post)