‘Of course it’s impossible to know what he’ll do next.’ (View Post)

Niall Ferguson: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/vlad-the-invader-putin-is-trying-to-recreate-the-tsarist-russian-empire Those who dread war approach diplomacy the wrong way, as if it is an altern… (View Post)

I do. I was in the church choir and sang "Zadok the Priest" among other things. Though Geo VI died young there wasn't much fuss about the whole thing. In fact istr people being happy t… (View Post)

He's pulling your leg! (View Post)

Putin's aim is Ukraine as a Kremlin suzerainty - nominally independent but in practice constrained to follow Russian objectives. In effect a supercharged "Finlandisation" (thanks Emma… (View Post)