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Orryon In many ways, the first strike is irrelevant. If it’s London, Moscow, Paris, St Petersburg, Los Angeles or Volgograd; once the nuclear bomb is dropped, we are all doomed. Even those in the corners of the world would succumb to the nuclear winter that follows. It’s a binary situation in...

This song came on earlier on the way back from the football, and the lyrics suddenly seemed chillingly relevant. Have a listen to them, and then remember the name of the artist is Fallout Boy. https://youtu.be/oPA0z4W-kcU

Temporary ceasefire announced in the cities of Mariupol and Volnovakha, to enable civilians to leave. A rare display of empathy from the Russians, or simply a move so they can say “it’s not our fault people died” when they resume hostilities and obliterate the entire area. Sadly, I know where...

You cannot tell me that this is accidental. The strategic shelling of civilian homes is a deliberate strategy to demoralise, and surely a war crime. https://youtu.be/0a9MC20dUDQ

‘kin’ell.

One sad and often forgotten tragedy of such affairs, is that insurance policies do not generally pay out for acts of war. So when you see these smouldering apartment blocks and houses destroyed by Russian shelling, that is someone’s life’s work quite literally going up in smoke.

Some very diluted French blood I understand, through my learnings on Ancestry.co.uk. Apparently, my surname, which for a long time I believed to be quite noble, is actually devolved from the nickname for someone with a visible wasting disease, such as leprosy. Which is nice.

It surprises me that, so far, more than 20% of people think NATO should be intervening militarily at this moment in time. I’ve also seen suggestions that the west’s reluctance to intervene suggests that Putin’s nuclear deterrence is bigger than ours. That’s simply not the case; the whole notion...

Indeed, I suppose the major variable in western and Russian narratives is who is the instigator and aggressor. Whilst never quite as simple as west = good guys and Russia = bad guys, we’re not the ones currently committing war crimes whilst killing innocent civilians in their thousands.

Indeed. You’re basically asking them to take the red pill - it’s not straightforward. Equally, as necessary as these sanctions are they’re not difficult to spin as the west trying to cripple Russia. They are a double edged sword in many ways.

https://youtu.be/TlBIa8z_Mts The political faces may change, the hate in the world remains.

Wow, that's shocking. Only 52.

The trouble is we do not operate in a Ukrainian vacuum. NATO’s army is far superior to that of Russia, and would comfortably overwhelm Russian forces in Ukraine if they were to battle it out there. The issue though is escalation. Would you steadfastly stand by your opinion if that meant all out...

https://youtu.be/Nth4RqqmQZ4

This is playing out like your average big club vs little club conference game. Frustrate, frustrate, frustrate; sucker punch. Yeah, Everton are a lot bigger than your Chesterfield’s, Stockport’s and Grimsby’s, but Boreham Wood have played this game a million times before. Believe me. A BW...

No need to try and come across so Tuffley…

Some bedtime reading should this issue trouble you: https://www.borehamwoodtimes.co.uk/news/582633.community-history-how-boreham-wood-became-borehamwood/ And no, it doesn’t clear it up at all…

Either way, surely it plays into Russian hands in the sense that they can say that the west is censoring the ‘truth’. Who in the UK was watching it anyway?

Fantastic news! :)

John Tyler, the 10th president of the United States, was born in 1790. His grandson, Lyon Gardiner Tyler, only died in September 2020, meaning that three generations of the family spanned 230 years. Those generations will have lived through the American revolution, the American civil war, WW1...