Doesn't even come close to the M25 on a Bank Holiday weekend. (View Post)

Never heard of it used in that sense, Farooq, and I thought I was pretty familiar with the local argot in the 60s and 70s. It never meant anything other smartly turned out where I came from. It is ce… (View Post)

I agree. It speaks to me of an indisciplined and incompetent force rather than some clever plan. That would of course be consistent with much we have seen from the Russian Army and Government in rece… (View Post)

Nobody is confused. Putin is a lying tnuc. Lots of people knew it before, now the world does. (View Post)

You weren't the only one. He was widely seen by western governments as promising a better future relationship with Russia and for a while it looked that might come to fruition. Things began to c… (View Post)