The Covid Recovery Group is doing a good job holding Johnson's feet to the fire. Would that other parties had similar dissident policy groups within them (Alba doesn't qualify, being about … (View Post)

Son in Barcelona sends pretty conclusive evidence here on the effectiveness of vaccinations in avoiding hospitalisation and death in Spain during November & December 2021. (View Post)

I doubt it. They endured and survived a horrendous prolonged siege from the Germans, obviously a more formidable force than the Finns. (View Post)

The Finns knew they would always have to be Russia's neigbours. Mannerheim's forebearance was natural and wise. (View Post)

St Petersburg, where Putin hails from and which was the launchpad of his political career, is very close to Finland. He surely knows the country well, as do many Russians who have property there as a… (View Post)