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Shall we make today the official brown shorts day?

Hopefully, IIs will smell blood here and buy in heavily.

Any info on this company? How big, how greedy, how interested?

Yippie-ki-yay motherf.ckers!

I fully support the decision to remove the requirements to wear masks.
Ncyt needs a good sp boost.

"I don't buy that Big"
Crimea was 9-1 or 8-2. Donetsk at the time must have been closer to 6-4 from what I've been told, but a lot of those who were not happy with the Donetsk republic would have left a long time ago (or, perhaps, died in the conflict).
A huge % of Russians were not happy when Crimea joined - more burden on the almost empty government kitty. Afaik, a huge % is against Donetsk joining. Russia has no resources (military or economic) and no population support to push past Donetsk, and I don't see any strategic interest in this expansion either.
I can see why Putin is losing his sh.t over the Nato membership though.

Flat - I'm more interested in recent history.
1920-1950 seems to be very different depending on what books you read and who you talk to.
Both Donbas and Crimea have been severely underfunded by the so-called "pro-western" government. If Ukraine was so keen to revive the lands "stolen by Soviets", why did they not do it in the 30 years of independence?
Suddenly Ukraine is looking to join Nato, and why oh why would Nato want them unless they come with a gift of some land where Nato can build new military bases. Crimean naval base is a massive cherry on top. Cleanse the ethnic Russian population, let the yanks set up a military operation there - perhaps one day they can invade Russia for its oil & gas, if there's anything left. Somehow I doubt the yanks will be sharing a slice of it with the UK - they are not the ones for handing out gifts while getting nothing in return.
God knows why Nato wants to expand otherwise - Russia has been rotting from within for decades and is no threat to anyone. Feck, they can't get their sh.t sorted in their own house.

Now, closer to home, we've got raging covid, corruption & contract scandals, rising prices, falling standards of living, rising taxes, struggling NHS, and the fallout from the brexit f.ck up. I guess BBC are not allowed to publish these headlines, so getting involved in a conflict we don't need (and don't know anything about, looking at the appalling Liz fiasco) is a very nice distraction.
F.cks sake, maintain foreign policy neutrality and let the economy prosper. Is it really that hard to do?

So Ncyt and broader markets - should be no impact, unless the f.cking politicians lose their sh.t.

Truss should resign after her f.ck up the other day, when she made a claim that the UK does not recognise Russian sovereignty over its territories. Just shows you the level of her knowledge & understanding. Also mixed up Baltic and Black sea. And that's the people who are supposed to be de-escalating the conflict.

It looks like a small local conflict, but all 3 sides (Russia, Ukraine and NATO) appear to be very keen to make this explode into something bigger. Should just blow over hopefully - but hey, everyone forgot about COVID.

From what I can gather, Ukrainian nationalists are not happy with the Minsk agreement signed by their previous president, devolving some of the central powers to Donetsk. "Not happy" as in pretending that the agreement has never happened. Google Minsk Protocol to get more info on it. Donetsk want to separate from Ukraine and, presumably, join Russia like Crimea did a few years ago, but for some reason (completely unknown to me) the current Ukrainian government does not want that to happen. It's a poor area with afaik no natural resources apart from old depleted coal mines, so it's not like it would be a huge loss, but wtfdik.
As far as I can see, there's no intention for Russia to contest any territories apart from protecting the interests of the pro-Russian Donetsk.
Ukraine is now talking about fighting Russia for Donetsk [even though Donetsk people themselves don't appear to want that. I mean, they've been fighting a war with the Ukrainian government that wants to "protect" them for years now] and "taking Crimea back". The latter, imho, is a joke and a provocation, as I've been there a few years before the war, and it was a hugely pro-Russian territory that at the time has been run into the ground by the Ukrainian government. They've held a referendum to join Russia and it passed with something like a 9-1 vote if memory serves me right, with the 10% being made by the pro-Kiev youngest generations.

So the conflict appears to be purely local, however, Putin is now showing off and starting to make loud claims about what Nato should and should not do, while some of the NATO countries (including the current twats in Westminster unfortunately) are showing off and telling Putin what he can and cannot do on Russian territory. Ukrainian nationalists are just happy to stir up trouble, as long as they have Uncle Sam on their side, so they can show them ruskies (who they loathe) who's the real boss.

Why the f.ck is UK voluntarily getting dragged into this **** is beyond me.

Selling the Alva plant to China for peanuts after the government has bankrupted it is an atrocity.
I wonder if their plan with nova was the same? Bankrupt the co, sell it off for peanuts, get your brown envelope and a pat on the back. Good boy.

Do you not read the news?
Covid's been over for months now.
Putin invading Ukraine is a bigger threat to the UK than covid.

Add another £3 to the price and then we'll be talking business.

3p was just a dream, just a dream.

So we find REMs and the SP is still 150?!
I'm losing my religion here.

If this does a whopping 200% rise (!!!) it will still only reach the last omicron-driven peak.
I think we'd be lucky to get this to reasonable levels in 2022...

You ain't no nothing about no double negatives.

"Department has made
impairments of £8.97 billion on PPE and Test and Trace consumable inventory "

F.ck me. (and the rest of the taxpayers)

Yeah, I'm surprised we're still blue on the back of that RNS...

I know it's another AIM myth, but beware of a Friday RNS. Good news are usually RNS'd on a Monday.

tldr