Given how bad the construction industry statistics have been for some time I am surprised that the figures are not even worse. I guess there is some lag in housing completions and it will get worse i… (View Post)

The thing is, if it was less obviously unreasonable there is scope for the US to pressure Ukraine to accept a bad deal. But by over-reaching so far, it makes it much easier to reject the surrender de… (View Post)

Apparently the surrender plan even includes a restriction on Ukrainian diplomatic flights. A piss-take doesn't even start to do it justice. (View Post)

I guess if they repaint the parking bays to give more space for today's much larger cars, then they'd reduce the number of cars which would help to balance out the increase in weight of each car to a… (View Post)

And we haven't avoided escalation. We've enabled escalation because our weakness has encouraged Russia to escalate. It's been the most self-defeating policy failure. (View Post)