Sacking Hunt in favour of Sunak just when Hunt has stabilised the market would be insane. This isn't a musical chairs game ffs. On Blair/Brown, there are different kinds of intelligence, broadly… (View Post)

When Italy were having constant government crises it did damage their standing - they were seen as a bit absurd and what their government at any given moment thought didn't have much long-term v… (View Post)

Nazism for Russians is inextricably linked to the Nazi attempt to wipe Russia out by mass genocide. FWIW my Russian-born mother did regard Ukrainian nationalism as inextricably tainted by Nazism, bec… (View Post)

Higher taxes over £100K with the elimination of the personal allowance taper would probably work - people up to £125K wouldn't necessarily pay more and would be pleased that the daft 61% margina… (View Post)

A quireky detail is that if Pokerstars is anything to go by, Belarus is being used in a big way to avoid sanctions - the number of supposedly Belarus players has increased massively since Russian pla… (View Post)