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I actually think this is a massive banana skin for Everton and Lampard. As I know only too well, shutting-up shop and hitting you with a sucker punch is an art form for non-league sides like Boreham Wood. Granted, there is a huge gulf in ability but that was also the case when they beat...

I think that’s a perfectly reasonable self-defence mechanism. There’s a lot of suffering in the world; if we didn’t filter much of it out, the world wouldn’t function. It’s not weak or uncaring, it’s normal.

A thought struck me earlier. Let's just say, hypothetically, that Russia (and / or China) managed to successfully nuke the entire western world off the planet (as depressing a thought as that is) and managed to stay relatively intact themselves, that's surely not great for their economies, is...

It’s an interesting (if depressing) read certainly, but it’s also highly speculative in its nature. If Covid taught us anything, it’s that stories which completely dominate the news as the pestilence did and Ukraine is right now, provide an excellent platform for subject matter ‘experts’ that...

It's an interesting read, but touches on a point that's been nagging away at the back of my mind for a few days now: I appreciate the west's options are limited right now. It cannot intervene militarily in Ukraine, and these unprecedentedly heavy sanctions will no doubt be hurting Putin's...

Ukraine might not have a military by the time he manages to put on a fight. I can understand entirely what he’s done and I also think it’s an act of astonishing bravery and heroism. The chances of serious injury or death must be exceedingly high - he has testicles bigger than any I could ever...

My personal opinion, and I don’t pretend to be geopolitically intelligent enough to understand the full dynamics, is that NATO will not fire a bullet in anger in Russia’s direction so long as they remain outside NATO territory. Whether you call that appeasement or pacification, the stakes are...

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Who’s selling the tickets, out of interest?

Entering just one NATO state would trigger a full-scale, probably (and regrettably) nuclear, war with the west. It’s not going to be a gradual land grab of the Baltics, nation-by-nation. I have no idea how this will end and the significance of that ending for non-Ukrainians, but this won’t turn...

Like many good things, it was NSC that introduced me to it.

Paywall bypassed: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fworld-news%2F2022%2F03%2F01%2Fvladimir-putin-sick-covid-russia-ukraine-invasion-illness%2F Personally, I’m not totally convinced that Putin being a desperate, doomed, dying man would necessarily be a good thing for...

This is all Putin’s choice. If sufficient evil and sufficient power exist in the same place, there is always a high chance of this happening, no matter what good exists to counter it.

My daughter will be 6 in July. I thought twice about watching that but did it anyway. I already regret that decision. As important as it is to see the atrocities that are taking place, if you’re a parent of a young child and are thinking about whether to watch that or not, I would personally...

It is indeed, but regrettably, I think we all need to strap ourselves in for a lot of sobering news in the weeks to come. Either that, or actively ignore it - my wife doesn't want to discuss it, doesn't want to see it on the telly, and doesn't want to hear it on the radio (which means we're not...

That did make me laugh, I have to say, and it’s not been a day for chuckles. I was going to retort with a jokey comment about Ian Holloway, but quickly realised it was way to trivial for this thread so I’ll leave it there instead.

First it was Brexit. Then it was Coronavirus. Now it’s the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and whatever that may spiral into. Each episode more depressing than the last, and each one having you pining for the simpler times that went before. If we do manage to avert WW3, anyone got any money on an...

Well, if nothing else, morally bankrupt FIFA doing the right thing against their own best interests is a yet another reminder of how unique and remarkable the current situation is.

That’s what worries me; the plausibility of positive outcomes. I can think of lots of scenarios where this goes wrong and escalates; Putin moves beyond Ukraine, gets riled by the devastation of the Russian economy, commits unacceptable atrocities or gets backed into a corner. None of those would...

Absolutely heartbreaking. War is always a messy business, and there will always be collateral damage in the form of civilian casualties - the UK is not whiter than white in this regard. But it’s the sheer needlessness of this which galls me. This is a peaceful, democratic and stable nation -...