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I know, I really appreciate you taking time out from your role up in Northolt to straighten me out on contemporary military and geo political affairs. Nonetheless I am struggling with your proposition. According to you….. 1) Russia and Putin militarily are on their knees. 2) Europe needs to...

Regardless, he is the democratically elected POTUS, and nothing will change that on this thread or in the U.K. more broadly. I can understand why many consider his conduct and decisions on Ukraine to be reprehensible, but geo politics is complex and at the end of it where does that leave the...

No one can say the US position has happened quickly, Trump made the same point he’s been making recently about Europe’s ability to defend itself back in 2017. No politicians around then can say they were not warned, and Macron was there. https://search.app/2utwcNwT5TQGm8jh8 As for Macron and...

Well, perhaps if Rory Stewart didn’t actively pimp his missus charity for donations you would have a gossamer thin squeak at a point, however he evidently is an activist for the charity………. Rory Stewart on X: "All BigGive donations to Turquoise Mountain’s amazing work in Afghanistan, Palestine...

Using frozen assets and/or the interest accrued from them is not an easy option. If think if it was it would have happened, however the legal precedent is significant and could undermine (amongst other matters) the stability of the euro. https://search.app/2tGhCSSWxdyC56sQ9 I think it will...

Is Rory Stewart a trusted broker on Trump, hasn’t a charity run by his missus in Afghan just been defunded by DOGE? Philip Pilkington on X: "Here is a clip from a BBC doc showing @RoryStewartUK’s US taxpayer-funded welfare program the Turquoise Mountain Foundation in action. Note how it hires...

I’m not going to split hairs, the statement you made on house prices didn’t reference a time window, however it’s evident since 2016 that house prices are not down and no where near the doom spiral predicted by Osbourne, Darling, Brown and all the other organs of the establishment that predicted...

I see, so the post Brexit forecasts at large in 2016 from the CBI, HMT et al, also baked in the future affect of events such as Covid and Ukraine? Genius, I’m gutted to have missed that memo……..

Here is the reality of the new world order everyone keeps banging on about. We can continue to de industrialise and struggle to rearm, or we can reverse that trend, (which includes reconstituting the ability to produce steel en masse). To do that net zero becomes irrelevant. Drill baby drill...

Yeah, I can remember the house prices going down 18%, the 820,000 job losses, the immediate recession, the demise of the City, the emergency budgets, NHS funding being cut 15%………I remember it all Pal. No wait………

Europe is like the fella with 2 black eyes……….. https://search.app/8Xx6VTyB83hJ7yo59 Should’ve listened the first time. By the way the U.K. is a trillion in the red courtesy in large part to pushing resources into COVID. Rachel has a 22bn black hole, where are the resources you speak of?

I didn’t bring the matter up here did I?

It’s possible you are one of the many who post on here that are unable to separate fact from opinion so I wont make this to pithy. The Times newspaper commissioned YouGov to conduct a major survey of Gen Z, which included their attitudes to the U.K., and fighting for the U.K. if it was...

I think the decline in national pride is only part of the equation, generally speaking this country (like others in the west) is socially balkanised across a range of different areas, and that means people are at completely different ends of the spectrum from each other in a way that did not...

The WW2 generation were the children of the WW1 generation, it’s even more remarkable that they served as they did. That generation is light years from where we are now and on so many levels. Societies in the West are now far richer than they were and arguably much more cynical of authority...

What tactics…..do you mean armies are out of date? I missed that meeting, someone should tell zalensky.

Sorry to break it to you, but there is no massive European military. Like it or not Trump has exposed the consequences of decades of European military decline. This country has less than 20k front line troops and no more than 200 tanks. We are upgrading 148 of those to be the new C3. We are...

Let’s be honest in any other circumstance, ten weeks inside for violent disorder is a lenient sentence. Given Yvette Coopers comments about the case, I think senior Labour figures were comfortable with the imposition of a custodial sentence and potentially a by election. With their present...

It’s very sweet that you see my contribution being hammered (quote/unquote) but really, I enjoy the debate. I seek no safe spaces or have any concerns about petty insults. Censorship voluntary or otherwise is surely the cornerstone of authoritarianism, not liberalism. Any road, the YouGov...

If Ukraine is, as you argue, in such a strong position and Russia in contrast such a weak one I’m surprised there’s so much anxiety about the US pulling the plug on aid/support in the first place. Maybe the Don feels the same way……..there is no Russian threat?