It's not about the money, though, be honest. £12.8bn is about 0.3% of UK public expenditure over the period. Your real grievance is that we've deprived Putin's Russia of their rightful… (View Post)

The biggest leverage, IMHO, is surging Russian inflation. (View Post)

The water companies are largely insolvent, and have based their business model on privatising profits, and nationalising losses. (View Post)

Given the degree of damage being inflicted upon both the military power and the military prestige of Russia, the expenditure on the part of the UK government looks like the bargain of the century. (View Post)

I don’t see the US era ending any time soon. But, it would be the end of the US Republic, and the beginning of a much more overt US Empire. (View Post)