It will be the Poles first, in a pincer movement with the Russians. (View Post)

For the hundredth time: It's not just the children. It's the staff as well. Generally, teachers are on average younger and fitter than the population as a whole (because of the high attriti… (View Post)

There is a certain irony here. Everyone keeps talking about 'Lockdown Two' and 'Lockdown Three.' But as far as I could ever see, there were only ever two lockdowns - the ones you … (View Post)

The problem is what Xi's proteges will see as 'stability' and what we would see as 'stability' are two rather different things - and not in a good way from our point of view. (View Post)

I'm not old enough to remember WW2 but I still viewed it as a 'significant event' if only because so many people kept talking about it. Or the moon landing, if you want a narrower para… (View Post)