The thing is, everyone knows that Andrew is very stupid, as well as being a complete shit. I had credited Mandleson with more intelligence. (View Post)

When you accept the hospitality of someone who has just been convicted of a serious sexual offence, well, as the saying goes: "Lie down with dogs, and pick up fleas." (View Post)

Why can't people grasp, There Is No Such Thing As A Free Lunch? (View Post)

It is an axiom of nuclear deterrence that no nuclear-armed power, or alliance, must ever yield to threats to use nuclear weapons from another. That was pretty well-understood in the Cold War, and tha… (View Post)

Add in "But, we must never respond, because we'd be provoking Russia". We have an unerring ability, as a species, to ignore threats that could easily have been nipped in the bud, with the r… (View Post)