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Britain can learn lessons from France and Greece to speed up asylum claims, a cabinet minister has said as he admitted the government was spending a “disgraceful” amount of money housing migrants in hotels. Times

'Sunak was chancellor during Covid and blew up the Uk economy, yeah.'

And who was his boss ??

The mess Britain is in can be partly explained by the fact that its politicians think it is more special than it really is. Prime Minister Liz Truss and her short-lived “Trussonomics” came hot on the heels of Brexit. Both are symptoms of a country that hasn’t fully come to terms with the loss of its empire. If the United Kingdom now realises it can’t defy the laws of economics and geopolitics, it may emerge wiser albeit weaker. That’s admittedly a big “if”.

I have reached the extent of my free articles so I can't access the whole article!
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That makes so much more sense, Panda!

Thanks for that BB.
I completely agree, and I would be very surprised if the US would use terrorist tactics re the gas pipe... which is the line being peddled by some Indian ex-ambassador! See below

BB - The link was on here yesterday but was deleted along with the other comments:
https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/comment/a-war-russia-set-to-win-441926
Personally, I think the Ex Ambassador '...has been spoiling us' with an awful lot of B....s....! re the US and the Russians peddling this nonsense.

Thanks for that, Pandamonia.
I read that there is said to be an internal coup in full swing inside the Kremlin, as the chief of the controversial Wagner mercenary group is putting Putin increasingly under pressure to sack his Defence minister, Sergie Shoigu.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, who heads the Wagner Group - also dubbed Putin’s private army and consisting primarily of mercenaries - is reportedly increasingly involved in day-to-day decision-making with regards to the war in Ukraine.

It has emerged that another one of Vladimir Putin’s close allies has suddenly died: Petrunin, 46-year-old Russian multimillionaire and a close confidant of the Russian president.
His death comes only five weeks after the head of Russia’s biggest privately held oil producer, who criticised the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine, died...after reportedly falling out of a hospital window!
You really couldn't make this stuff up!

It's my middle name !
There is no comeuppance for polititians; they put their careers first, the party second, and, sadly, country third...with a few exceptions.

I quite agree, Jotom.
I feel that globalisation may have altered some people's perspective.
I wonder how many more of them would sell their souls for 'pieces of gold'...I was brought up to be patriotic and it seemed to matter.

Chinese recruitment schemes are attempting to headhunt serving and former UK Armed Forces pilots to train 'People’s Liberation Army personnel in the People’s Republic of China'.
They have already employed about 30. More worrying is that these guys are prepared to sell their confidential skills to what is now considered to be the enemy!

Climate activists have thrown tins of what appears to be tomato soup over a Van Gogh painting of sunflowers at the National Gallery in London. BBC

After the war, Bandera with his family settled in West Germany where he remained the leader of the OUN-B and worked with several anti-communist organizations such as the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations[15] as well as with the US and British intelligence agencies. That's good enough for me.

Ukraine has opened a surrender hotline for Russian soldiers and claims thousands have called it
The ‘I Want to Live’ Telegram channel also offers cash rewards for military equipment, including up to $50,000 for a tank. lol
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'...wonder why today.'

Isn't there some kind of Poly general meeting tomorrow?

‘NATO destabilised rogue state’ - What? LOL
You’ll have to explain that one Johnny

'The US-led West can ensure that any tactical nuclear escalation by Russia would lead not to success but to further reversals or to total military defeat in Ukraine – pretty much no matter how effective Russian nukes might be.' Telegraph

'The admin wont act. Its pointless moaning. Just mock them!'

Johnny it's you who is the toxic creature on this board, so please let's hope you are banned...soon!

b-b's cynicism regarding the most recent RNS is likely to be justified after all!

From The Economist:
Xi Jingping, China’s president, will make his first trip abroad since the beginning of the pandemic this week, the country’s foreign ministry confirmed. From Wednesday, Mr Xi will visit Kazakhstan and then Uzbekistan, which is hosting the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit. Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, will also be in attendance, giving the pair the chance to meet for the first time since Russia invaded Ukraine. Hmmm!