On a lighter note, here's the impressive Ukrainian ration kit that's keeping them going in the chilly surroundings (-1 in Kyiv at the moment): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID_eFoIemjU (View Post)

What it achieves is preventing what's happened in the Balkan States and Poland, with NATO troops right up to the Russian border. Neutrality would mean no Russian, American or other foreign troop… (View Post)

A few unconfirmed reports from various sources which people may not all have seen (Guardian, NZZ (Swiss, pro-Ukrainian), Haaretz (Israeli), Interfax (pro-Russian): "Small positive signs" in… (View Post)

If we're playing subsamples, Labour up to 46% in the E Mids subsample - more than in London. All those Rutland and Lincolnshire workers and intellectuals storming the barricades. (View Post)

Yeah. I'll chat with anyone, pretty much, and most people aren't as consistently political all the time as some of us. An old friend varies between Con, UKIP and once BNP, and certainly vot… (View Post)