If I was cynical, I might think that the plan to remove the winter fuel allowance was something of a smokescreen. Threaten a policy which is very unpopular, if it is voted through, OK but, if there is significant opposition, do a U-turn, claim to be a caring, listening government, then smack us...
Judging by the quality of Russian conventional weaponry there’s a very high chance that their nuclear arsenal will not have been maintained and will, in the large part, be obsolete. There’s a huge risk in firing duds that even a nutjob like Putin will be reluctant to risk.
The largest landowner in the world currently is King Charles III of England. How much land does the Royal Family own? He and the British Royal Family own more than 6,600,000,000 acres of land around the world. They technically own many territories around the globe, amounting to 1/6 of the...