The Eastern Ukraine idea is not on the table. Ukraine is not offering it and Putin has absorbed the occupied areas into the Russian Federation directly: in Russian legal theory they are now Russian o… (View Post)

I can't resist it, sorry... ☹️ https://x.com/Seoirse_/status/1993662285093769423#m (View Post)

No it isn't, no it isn't, no it isn't. (grits teeth) Look, I hate being on the same side as Barty, but this is predicting the past. Models or surveys are contra-indicated, since we kno… (View Post)

Possibly the most informative post today... :) (View Post)

Perhaps, say, a tariff on assembled cars entering the country? Foreign suppliers would then input parts which we would then assemble, giving the Dundonians a skillset which they could then use as imp… (View Post)