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Haha. My "financial interest in Ukraine" consists of going there for work paid for by my UK charity employer. I had one 'thing' there but have 15 or so platonic friends / work related aquaintances. Coversely my association with Russia goes back much longer. Maybe I'm a Putin shill?

Many (most?) international companies artificially rebook profits to the country with the lowest tax regime. Which is why so may global giants are supposedly based in the Republic of Ireland. All Shell and many others do is load expenses, 'franchise fees' and 'loss of goodwill' onto their high profit centres to the extent that only £1.59 is left to pay tax on whilst shifting all the revenue streams to somewhere they have a sweetheart deal with. Its a form of 'if you let me be based here whilst I defraud your neighbours I'll give you a cut of the proceeds'. Inevitably somebody will trundle along and try to say we should cut corporate taxes to compete - but there is no level playing field in money laundering. Lichtenstein, Ireland, Luxembourg or Monaco will always undercut larger countries because a corporate tax rate of say 2% on Amazon for a population of a million will be far far more per head than 20% for a population of 65 million

Some people aren't really cut out for war reporting 😄

Just shows a current minister is as big a dogma led fuckwit as Truss. Even if you believe in the general principle that lower tax and lower spending leads to greater growth, you'd have to be utterly incompetent / recklessly negligent to cut taxes at a time of record budget deficit, massive debt and raging inflation.

Should be an extra T for Tory voter. It's a marginal orientation at the fringes of society.

This. The only way they can get the population to accept more deaths, falling living standards and further mobiisation is if they invoke the 'defend the Motherland' gumpf.

I always get her a ticket for a £50 voucher draw

Should keep the rain off then

Nice trains too. Went from Kyiv to Lviv on a sleeper with full bed and steward bringing you tea on demand. £12

I read they have lost 10,000 men just to take a provincial town and atttempting to take Bakhmut. Also a Machiavellian theory gonig around that Putin promised Prizghozin greater power if he took Soledar knowing that he would either destroy his troops in trying, or fail.

Why dont you bang on about those cunts at railways stations putting down ramps for people in wheeelchairs to get on trains? Thats more your level of complexity.

Exactly. Apart from being the right thing to do it is also a legal requirement. Given the NHS has c550 million patients each year and 1.3 million employees one diversity manager per 660,000 patients and 1,600 employees seems pretty sparse.

Where's Wally? Brutal depiction of what happens when you dump untrained conscripts with little equipment in the front line with not so miuch as a shovel to dig a trench.

It's a variation of Brexit mindset, trying to take us back to the 1950s and focussing on the three Rs when what we really need is better vocational education leading to properly trained builders, plumbers, electricians etc.

At least 50% of he big issues are reserved What can the Scottish Parliament decide? The Scottish Parliament has power to make laws on a range of issues known as devolved matters. Devolved matters include: agriculture, forestry and fisheries benefits (some aspects) consumer advocacy and advice economic development education and training elections to the Scottish Parliament and local government energy (some aspects) environment equality legislation (some aspects) fire services freedom of information health and social services housing justice and policing local government planning sport and the arts taxation (some aspects) tourism transport (some aspects) What cannot be decided by the Scottish Parliament? Some issues that have a UK or international impact remain the responsibility of the UK Parliament alone. These are known as reserved matters. Reserved matters include: benefits (some aspects) betting and gambling broadcasting constitution (some aspects) consumer protection policy currency data protection defence and national security equality legislation (most aspects) energy (most aspects) elections to the UK Parliament employment law and industrial relations financial services foreign affairs immigration, asylum and visas nationality and citizenship postal services taxation (some aspects) telecommunications trade and industry transport (some aspects)

Pretty sure this guy is the same one too

I thought Russia's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova was worth watching just to hear her rant when pissed. But there's more! Classy wedding and some strawberries. The replies are better than the post.

Yep I meant 15 450kg warheads would be less than one full load

Those 15 will have a warhead of no more than 450kg - one load of a WW2 Lancaster bomber to use Lighthouse’s example. We used to send 1.000 bombers a day against Germany so this is a drop in the ocean.

Saw another item where pensioners couldn’t get their pensions because the office had no cash. Suggests a run on the banks is brewing and government is trying to restrict amount of cash to reduce outflows

They are simple public health laboratories tasked to monitor and respond to outbreaks of infectious diseases. A lot of diseseases such as typhoid and malaria are endemic in Asian countries like India. Its in the West's interests to stop outbeaks in buffer states before they turn into something major.

Are you not able to grasp the difference between private property bought with corruptly embezzled funds and Government buildings used to house heads of state and ministers for the period of time they hold office?

Ive been there. Its a public museum now. Maybe you can dismiss the 1 million visitor a year as fakes too? https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/AttractionToursAndTickets-g4917417-d9732821-Mezhyhirya_Residence_Museum-Novi_Petrivtsi_Kiev_Oblast.html https://eu.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/news/world/2019/10/10/former-ukrainian-presidents-estate-now-museum-corruption/3930071002/