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Putin's colonial mentality - "Ukrainians - you're really Russian - you should be one with us - I'm so keen to deepen our friendship that I'm prepared to bomb and kill thousands of you to make this happen." Biggest reason why Putin can even contemplate this? The glaring lack of a common European army. AllContinue reading "Blue passport mentality; or, how Putin gets away with it"

Here is a real freedom fighter. She's 79 years old, and she's prepared to dust off her AK-47 to plant one on Putin's colonial army: Article <here>. Now, let's meet another "freedom fighter": From a <report by the BBC:>"Mr Van Vleet, a truck driver from the Niagara region of Ontario, near the US border, hasContinue reading "The real freedom fighters (clue: it isn’t the anti-vaccers)"

An article by the late Sir Henry Brooke, the former UK appeals judge, sets out what the role of Attorney General (AG) is about. His (short) article, from a forgotten age of scholarship and principle, is worth reading, at this <link>. The current UK AG, Suella Braverman QC MP, should perhaps read it, as herContinue reading "Britain’s AG is in PR"

In 2014, in an e-mail to a friend in the US dated Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 5:48 AM, I said: "Putin is a thug and a bully R***.  He only understands force.  Appealing to that guy's better nature is like asking a crocodile to turn vegetarian." In 2016, a few months prior to theContinue reading "Russia 1; West 0"

An extreme Donk car, with access ladder For any item, from a house to a toaster to a shoe to a car, I have a simple design red line – form must always follow function. This does not rule out elegance, but it does establish a hierarchy.  Nothing should be styled for style’s sake.  Continue reading "Do you donk?"

Another day, another unintelligent article by The Daily Telegraph. In this <article>, Camilla Tominey says that there was nothing "fair" about Gina Miller's 2017 <Brexit case>. It was of course an entirely fair case, and a very necessary intervention - that is, if you care about the principle of parliamentary sovereignty.  Miller saved British parliamentaryContinue reading "Why Gina Miller’s Brexit case was necessary"

“If you look at the passing-out of the latest cohort of solicitors and barristers in Northern Ireland, the vast majority of them have been educated in what we would perceive to be Catholic grammar schools. It doesn’t necessarily follow they are nationalists, but obviously the vast bulk of nationalists are from the Catholic persuasion. It’sContinue reading "New Taig cull programme"

The cool person's passport It's hiding in plain sight. The link between xenophobia, racism and the anti-vaccer mentality. Novax Jokeovic, tennis player, and well-known anti-vaccer <hangs out with violent Serbian nationalists>. Remainers are <more likely to get a jab than leavers>. "The anti-vax movement has, in short, become a magnet for people engaged in anti-truthContinue reading "Anti-vaccine freedom fighters"

Google search on "protocol", 12 January 2022: The DUP is a party with no discernible economic pulse, although it does contain members who <refuse to believe in dinosaurs>. You can add your own quips folks. Note though that poor Jeff is no longer attempting to run with the fiction that the Brexit protocol is aContinue reading "A tale of 2 headlines:"