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)

You are of course right. Your dislike is quite irrational. (View Post)

It’s hard to see how Boris comes back. Because the next PM is going to fight the election most surely. And even if not, this group of MPs would not bring him back to face the members. So let’s say Tr… (View Post)