I think there's sort of an intermediate path whereby Trump is done, but too slowly to matter. ie this particular hack can't actually stop the prosecution, but there will always be a tame judge somewh… (View Post)

FPT I expect there was a third one that wasn't in the reporting? However back in the day the system was that Oxford would do their own admissions testing 9 months before the public exams and if you p… (View Post)

Gold is a wildly volatile speculative asset so you can't measure the value of the money in terms of the amount of gold it can buy. If you look at the chart you have a period in a few years where the … (View Post)

The unacceptability of NATO troops in Ukraine is the centre of Putin's argument for the invasion so I can't imagine him accepting that. (View Post)

That's nothing like Trump whatsoever. Saying X is out of context or misinterpreted is the way traditional politics is done. You keep one foot in the world of facts, but then you try to spin them in y… (View Post)