Can’t believe I never noticed the Rishi = EICIPM thing before. (View Post)

I’m not sure you read my whole comment I’d you think I am absolving Conservative governments from blame. This has been an unwitting bipartisan effort to weaken our security for decades. (View Post)

Indeed. It was little understood by most that the intended audience of the sanctions regime and military support in Feb 2022 was sitting as much in Beijing than Moscow. (View Post)

Of course it is. This version of the Chinese Communist Party explicitly defines itself as an adversary of the West and its policy actions are first passed through the internal prism of whether it hel… (View Post)

In the spring I released 500 native ladybird larvae, in a forlorn hope of keeping the aphids under control. The proper red ones. Not the orange harlequins that are the ones you mostly see these days.… (View Post)