My idle speculation about why Putin is *so furious* with Johnson is that Putin assumed that he was in his pocket (a la Trump), and is incensed to learn that being a suck-up when all things are equal … (View Post)

There's also a big difference between "we won't raise taxes"=>raises taxes and "we are not mentioning raising taxes"=>raises taxes. The Major government were the f… (View Post)

Everybody always seems to get tetchy mid-afternoon. Maybe some kind of snack break is in order. (View Post)

i had a great uncle in the merchant navy on those Baltic convoys. He didn't have all his fingers. (View Post)

You're quite right that it is a really interesting piece; we are lucky you stumbled across it. I'm not sure I *entirely* agree with your "Very few, sadly" addendum. In this contex… (View Post)