Rightly so. The casual use (and even more reckless disposal) of deadly military-grade nerve agents in an English city is one thing your politics should never find a way to excuse. (View Post)

But there are three and a half million in NATO. If we don't defend Estonia, then NATO is a goner. Any time in the next decade, Russia versus a full NATO response would give the Anglo-Zanzibar Wa… (View Post)

You can't get to do that, just because the Beaker people were mugs... (View Post)

Or just paying down the borrowing incurred through Covid. (View Post)

For the second time this year I have discovered that somebody who I was quite close to but had lost touch with died of cancer, some years ago. Still quite a deep sense of loss. Also just learned some… (View Post)