Germany in particular was warned about exactly the scenario we now face. Those warnings had no effect. So whilst you want to talk about "the west" I'd point to German policy as by far … (View Post)

This whole Russia vs Ukraine issue has been very useful for smoking out the cranks over the last couple of days. There are a lot more of them here than I had realised. (View Post)

It would need to be on the same sort of level as Father Ted explaining perspective to Father Dougal. (View Post)

There is little evidence in the file being served by the Mirror of editing beyond the faces being obscured, although that could be because it has already been recompressed multiple times. It's n… (View Post)

It's two sets of distortion as well. The initial lens effects of the image being taken, and then the effects of taking a picture of a screen. It's non-trivial to assess such things. (View Post)