And Ukraine is being supplied by a global alliance, which makes it a much closer analogy than it seems. (View Post)

It is a sorry lineup at the moment. After years of decline. Tragically, it might be Donald Tusk. (View Post)

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 first I rem… (View Post)

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