NB. This is my view too. EFTA as a the obvious stepping stone to whatever the country wanted next, which could have been decided over time. Unfortunately we got a mix of insane Brexit absolutists &am… (View Post)

You’re not an idiot. They do this every day, day in day out & have honed scripts that work & have practiced emotionally manipulating the person on the other end of the line over & over. W… (View Post)

Some analysis here: https://fullfact.org/news/has-murder-rate-doubled-hanging-was-abolished/ Which suggests the disparity is not as bad as the raw figures suggest, due to population growth & recl… (View Post)

Make your mind up! Are we pressuring Ukraine to keep fighting a proxy war on our behalf, or are we pressuring them to negotiate a peace proposal? You seem to want it both ways. I suggest the grown up… (View Post)

One of the problems with the calls for armistice is that Russia has explicitly & very publicly claimed the entirety of the four regions of Ukraine that it partially held as Russian territory. In … (View Post)