You can make that case. I can see some merit in it. But people equally make the case that the Western intervention in Libya, which helped to topple Gaddafi, is responsible for the chaos there, and th… (View Post)

They're from the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The 1,320 is killed, wounded or (sometimes) captured in the last 24 hours (or at least reported in that period, the Ukrainian armed … (View Post)

The big risk for any civil servant moving north is that No 10 North is abolished by the next PM, possibly in just three years, and then they will need to buy a house in/near London again. (View Post)

HMG has removed the VAT on electricity for six months. Yes. Exactly the sort of short-term expedient pursued by British politicians for decades. Edit: I'd have hoped that we could disagree witho… (View Post)

I missed the news that Sir Garfield Sobers had died a few days ago. (View Post)