All sports really nowadays. There is a huge amount of sportswashing by nasty regimes from all over the world. (View Post)

People should have realised something was up when the Kursk sank. Putin did not act like someone who was supposedly on friendlier terms with the West. It made a nonsense of all the guff about "m… (View Post)

The fact that it is even a political contest is absolutely nuts to me. (View Post)

Common sense would tell you that you are more likely to have a dispute with your neighbours than some other country on the other side of the world. (View Post)

I do broadly agree with that, but with one slight but important condition, we will only know where the dangerous boundary for step 2 lies when we cross it. It may then be too late to do much about it… (View Post)