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you seem to say that Russia was pushed into invading Ukraine by NATO and the USA and Zelenskiy should have given in, give to Putin what he wants to avoid devastation of Ukraine. While it's still unclear if there is any truth in Russia being pushed, some of us disagree with you about both Putin...

42NM. The last price rise was last January 2022. In view of the 20% fall in GBP exchange rates since then, all Woosh products will go up in price on 01-October by 7% on average. I expect we'll have to increase price again in January 2023.

I reckon it'll be 1.03 in the morning. The BoE has no gold reserve, we have a huge deficit in the balance of payments, an economy in recession and need to borrow immediately an awful lot of money to keep the boilers on this winter. Liz Truss still believes she can give us a world beating...

BoE statement just now: we'll not hesitate to raise interest rate. KK has nothing to say. BBC journalists are queueing up to explain why our economy is in such a mess. In so doing, explain also why KK is an idiot. Labour gets a free gift. BTW, the market expected the BoE to increase interest...

it's not the number though. Firstly, more migrants arrive in France, Germany, Spain, Italy than UK. Secondly, our government declares them illegal because of their method of arrival but subsequently, accepts most (about 90%+) of their applications. If our government declares only those whose...

the facts seem to contradict that view. All those come by rubber boats are deemed illegal and yet, nobody gets sent back or to Rwanda. So where do they go? What do they do? Most are in fact allowed to work permanently, only some temporarily.

completely beside the point. Dictators rely on corruption to build their regimes and the regimes rely on wars to keep their people under their thumb. Under the circumtance, only the young adults have the physical strength to leave. We are lucky to live in a relatively liberal society, we can...

Sunak was right to prioritise inflation. Kier Starmer is always obsessed to appear business friendly to the point of aping everything the tories do, so he embarks on making plan for growth to compete with KK. The whole world is going through a low growth, high inflation phase because of the war...

it depends if KK and his Number Two at the Treasury (Chris Philp) can keep their mouths shut and show a bit of humility to those who are still prepared to buy our sovereign bonds. KK's cockiness on Friday costs the Pound 3% against the Dollar and 2% against the Euro. As we import so much of what...

presidents of the USA don't pursue the dame politics. To lump them together is just too convenient.

If we have to apportion blame, things become very complicated very quickly. Putin did not have to invade Ukraine but he did. He is responsible for inflicting misery on easily 6 millions+ Ukrainians and posibly 100,000+ deaths. The sooner he goes, the better the world will be.

why should the USA take responsibility for something that Putin did?

I watched Lord Bilimoria of Cobra Beer fame was explaining the logic behind the decisions of LT's government on BBC Newscast. He is absolutely delighted with the mini budget. Huge transfer of tax money to big businesses.

big difference, LT and KK borrow to cut taxes, not for expansion. £2 billions is what it costs the Treasury to remove the 45% tax band for the top 1% of taxpayers while basic rate taxpayers get 1% tax giveaway.

I reckon they'll wait for the winter to bite and call the new GE, hoping people would vote for continuity when faced with high energy bills. Borrow to buy votes.

if you can't pedal much, you'll need a bike with a fully acting permanent throttle so you can start off on a hill. The Woosh Santana3 can do that with a simple reprogramming to make the throttle permanent. If you want it to be 100% legal, it has to be certified by VOSA (£55). The Santana3 has a...

Lawrence Summers, Secretary of US Treasury under Clinton, said this about LT's and KK's plan announced today: quote: It makes me very sorry to say, but I think the UK is behaving a bit like an emerging market turning itself into a submerging market. Between Brexit, how far the Bank of England...

I am not convinced that a Marshall plan would even work. The whole Western sphere has entered low growth phase for the last 30 years and with education in developing countries catching up with ours, there isn't a specific area we can quickly get into and dominate. We could have done well in wind...

Just image the opposition to the war in Russia if 300,000 were sent to fight in Ukraine. a lot of Russians are born after the USSR collapsed (1991), they don't have the nostalgia of communism. How many do you reckon are willing to fight to 'regain' Ukraine? Unlike in the Russo Afghanistan war...

a year ago today, the Pound was worth $1.367. Some 19% drop. It's not hard to figure out where inflation comes from. Does anyone know another way to claw back the losses other than for interest rate to go up?