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From a family perspective, it would be the house I live in. We have lived, laughed and loved here since 1995, raised a son, and made many happy memories. From a financial perspective, it must also be the best purchase on that front as well, but we didn't buy it for that.

VERY good observation. If there are fuel shortages, where will they first be apparent? In the furthest regions, no? How will they get the fuel there in the first place? Back in the summer of 2022, not that long after the invasion had begun, I was captivated by a long tweet (he put a lot of...

Same question for this forest fire in Buryatia, east of Lake Baykal, a huge distance from Ukraine. What caused it? Maybe it really was an accident. A natural occurrence, a symptom of global warming perhaps. But if I were a local warlord/agitator, resentful of a century of plundering by Moscow...

What caused this then? This is a long way from Ukraine.

Absolutely. What Putin needed to do, was get the sums right. In other words, not have to try to sell another tax rise in a year's time. We will see if he got it right. But there is no doubt, with reshuffles, calls for a 'freeze' of the war, and now this, Putin is under pressure. It's...

My mum used to go to Taormina and loved it. Lots of ruins, spectacular views, Etna next door.

Neither will being on a war economy footing, spending taxpayers' money on single-use weapons.

No wonder Russia wants to 'freeze' this 'senseless war'. It's running out of money, https://news.sky.com/story/russia-weighs-up-its-biggest-tax-shake-up-in-almost-25-years-as-putin-scrambles-to-finance-ukraine-war-13146522

That doesn't seem to stop them doing so. Before the Kharkiv offensive, they announced they want a 'sanitary zone' between them and Ukraine, and that the Ukraine regime is toxic. Not a hint of irony or self-awareness. None. They seem to have a very high opinion of themselves which the rest of...

You're right of course. It's the result that counts. Nothing else matters.

Jude Bellingham getting emotional there. Keep it together for the cameras FFS Jude!

Were Madrid 2-0 better than Dortmund? The result says yes, but not really, no.

The moral? Take your chances.

Tbf, it was a good goal, well taken.

More threats from Russia then. Don't they have anything else in their toolbox? It's all they seem able to do these days. There's no new, innovative economic leverage from the new technocrat Belousov. Just the same old gangster power plays. Their thinking is on tram lines.

Thank you for the mention, but it wasn't me who wrote about Attendance Allowance - that was someone else.

That's like expecting Potter not to say 'It is what it is'. Some things in life are impossible.

A few hints if I may, on how to deal with a dementia patient. Every time I visited her, my mum never recognised me, so each time I said in a clear voice, 'Hello Mum!' to help her know who I was. One thing that I don't think has been mentioned, is that dementia patients can still grieve...

@raymondo, you mentioned Atesh earlier, in relation to the attack on the coal train in the Amur region in the far east of Russia. I googled Atesh, and it returned a link to this BBC article from 6 Jan, which I don't remember any of us posting on here...

Not entirely sure of the timeline, but if the sequence of events works out, then Ukraine didn't waste any time (y)