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Yes of course the quality of the reporting in tabloids is awful, driven by whatever gets clicks rather than quest for truth. Thats a whole different debate though. As you say there is real accurate information out there, you just need to look for it. But there is is very very little of Russia's actions towards Ukraine that has been worthy of favourable comment. Putin has screwed both Russia and Ukraine for his own enrichment initially and then for his own enjoyment. He ex wife called him a sadist, and I wouldnt argue with that.

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Caroline Lucas has been my MP for years and she is excellent. You could definitely form a really good coalition Government from the best of the Greens, LDs, SNP and Labour

Probably not that far from reality.... )

She's going to need a lot of it to get through the next few weeks

I dont know why media outlets still wheel him out. It's not as though he was ever popular or right. Even in Thatchers era he was a despised headbanger.

Very odd. Ukrainian soldiers attacking a Russian vehicle whilst speaking Russian to each other in Donbass dialect. I'm sure Manji told us.....

It means they are going to stop buying gas via the Nordstream pipelines

I know its not a new thought but its basically a 'meh' Labour team up against a 'FFS no' Tory team. For the good of the country we need a change . Not expecting too much from a Labour Government but a reurn to sanity and a bit less dishonesty would be enough to be going on with.

Have you thought about a comms career advising the President of Russia?

She is also blocking publication of the Office of Budgetary Responsibility's forecasts. Which shows they are saying something contra to her BS

Three gas pipelines breached in the Baltic. I wonder who did that and why...... Seems like Russia is desperate, desperate, desperate for NATO to do anything militarily so thay have some kind of fig leaf for the utter disaster. One of the pundits on a national tv propaganda show made an interesting comment which was quickly glossed over. Basically said they have only two months before economic collapse. No idea if accurate or informed, but still

Russia is going to close its borders to stop people fleeing. 261,000 men already gone since mobilisation. You can't beat success like that eh Manji?

Therewon't be any jobs when Deutsche goes bust. They are going to take the whole world down with them. I have it on good authority.

and there was me thinking it was reckless mass give away to show what 'real Tory'she was. She bet the whole house on the roulette wheel coming up blue. "Whaddya mean there is no blue?" Liz, Liz Liz....

Exactly this, and perpetuated by collectivisation of Ukrainian farms, deportations and the way Russia has always behaved towards Ukraine - as a colony.

Azov. Remind me., They are the ones who formed a Grand Alliance with the other right wing groups in the 2019 Ukrainian election and they got a combined total of 2.3% of the vote. - far far less than the right in Germany, France or Italy for example. They're the ones who had influence 10 years ago when the Russian leaning President was selling Ukraine down the river but have faded away as a force once pro Europe politicians got elected. That's them right?

I know at least 20. Mostly now living in Kyiv and Cherkasy having fled Donetsk in 2014

"The amount of ignorance on the thread is breathtaking" Much of it is yours. There are at least 5 factually wrong claims in your short post - which shows your level of igonorance is next level. For example - the absolute basics "They are being held in Donbass, Donetsk and Luhansk regions" The Donbass is not a separate region. Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts make up the Donbass region. You also forgot Kherson and Zaporizhia which are not in Donbass Russian speaking does not equal Russian aligned - and anyway the 'Russian' spoken in Ukraine is actually a hybrid of Russian and Ukrainian called Surzhyk. Only a small proportion of the population speak 'pure' Ukrainian or 'pure' Russian the great majority speak Surzhyk, including in Kyiv. Until the 1930s the population of Crimea, South east Ukraine and the South west of Russia around Rostov and Krasnodar east were mostly Turkic Tartars, sometimes known as Cossacks. They were deported to the far east of Russia by Stalin for the crime of mainly being anti Bolshevik. Many of the so called ethnic Russians were transplanted there quite recently. But you arent interested in facts. You're too up your own arse for that.

Is that what the once Titanic (sinks like a stone) Al Murray tribute act has sunk to? - leaping on a typo?

Yep, got it. But don't forget it lovely Liz helping them out from the unfair demands of bastard despicable banks

Im off to cash in my unused holiday dollars. I only bought them in mid August and already made 12%! Shame its only $153

I saw that. They claimed to have shot down 298 Ukrainian aircraft and 160 helicopters when they only had 128 to start with including trainers and transport.

That is true - but its flight to safety reaction to the war. The dollar always rises during turbulence. Again likely short term imo

Inflation only stays high if you get repeated prices rises year after year. A lot of current inflation was a spike imo - oil (price already dropped by over 30% from its peak), the war (grain crisis mostly over) and the lack of production hanggover from covid causing price hikes in manufactured goods like cars. It could fall really quickly as rises pass out of the system