I offered to go up for a few days to help - they didn't bother to take it up, and the usual appeals to help the polling day operation haven't been coming in. So either they're insanely… (View Post)

Yes, Twitter's basically a neutral tool for projecting unfiltered chatter from all kinds of people, and no more reliable that what a stranger tells you in a pub. The general ethos of mutually su… (View Post)

Probably, plus some deal protecting the eastern provinces and Crimea - whether regional government or guarantees. The recognition of Zelensky was stressed by the Russians last week when they said the… (View Post)

I hesitate to speculate too much about people whom I know, even slightly, but that sounds quite likely to me. I recognise it a bit in myself (maybe most of us are like that to some extent?) - if I fi… (View Post)

Still keeping track of the at times quite frank Russia Today website (before it's banned), and see a piece by what appears to be a senior politician/commentator, describing the invasion in detac… (View Post)