How many times does it have to be said, Topping? Never attribute to malice anything that can be equally well explained by incompetence. Remember you have the Home Office in charge of this. (View Post)

To be honest, Blanche, I'm glad you got turned down. You were attempting to go into a very dangerous environment and might well have made things worse for the people you were trying to help. A f… (View Post)

They can use Tolstoy's War & Peace as an instruction manual. Edit: Sorry, that should be Special Military Operations and Peace. Not used to the new code yet. (View Post)

It's easy to believe China has both great concerns and an opportunity here. (View Post)

They might take Kiev, with great difficulty. They will not take all of Ukraine; they haven't the manpower. Their international reputation has been trashed. This has been a ruinous misadventure f… (View Post)