I agree - partly because our ability to wage economic war is far greater than it was in the 80s. Globalization (and the integration of China into the Western economies) has seen to that. (View Post)

Why does Biden need a bridge - or rather, how does UKGov provide it? When we were in the EU, having a US-aligned partner with voting rights and policy influence was a huge benefit to the US. We'… (View Post)

He won't be defeated militarily. We aren't going to go and occupy St Petersburg and Moscow and Vladivostok. So he has to be contained militarily at the lowest possible cost to us, and maxim… (View Post)

Or you could watch Threads on Britbox,.pick up the copy of When the Wind Blows bought for you by a kindly mother because it was that Raymond Briggs, and relive every night of your early 80s childhood… (View Post)

No. This is pretty much the same. Except this time I'm the parent pretending there's nothing to worry about (which technically there isn't - we're fine or instantly dead; not some… (View Post)