Yes taken at first glance it's more like Putin wants the Russian Empire back not the USSR. Which is properly bloody nuts, and hard to believe that it could be happening in the 21st century, but … (View Post)

I don't watch much TV, and very little that I do watch is live, but by chance I got to see Wallace's statement and Johnson's statement this afternoon. The contrast between the two was … (View Post)

If it was just a trick, to cut testing and claim cases were falling we would see a rise in positivity, or at least no decline. That is not what has happened, cases have been falling quite a bit faste… (View Post)

It is a terrible argument, is a government only legitimate when a certain subset (nation, region, county, constituency, street, or household) elects it? No, that's daft, anyone arguing for that … (View Post)

It's a tad worrying that it takes a crisis like this to learn such a lesson. I would have thought that it has long been obvious that we cannot trust the Russian government. (View Post)