The Mercator projection is at least useful for navigation. The Peters projection is one of the worst. There are far better equal-area projections that don't distort shape so much. (View Post)

The White House appear not to understand that, for Ukraine to win, Russia must lose. "Ukraine had the opportunity to destroy dozens of Russian aircraft with ATACMS missiles, but the U.S. prohibi… (View Post)

Good news: Russian artillery losses reaching a new high. 74 reported for the day, 1,477 for the month of July so far. Bad news: A British government reaching for cuts to infrastructure spending, agai… (View Post)

Some Greens, doubtless, but it's irksome to have a whole group labelled with a view due to individual members of the group having that view. (View Post)

It's going to be interesting to see how these non-MP ministerial appointments work out. (View Post)