Bloomberg has audio files of Trump envoy Steve Witkoff coaching the Russians how to pitch their extreme Ukraine demands to Trump as a peace plan.

Should rule him out of holding public office ever again. This entire exercise is thoroughly compromised.

OK, the top four stories on the BBC News tonight have been detailing major measures being announced in “tomorrow’s” budget:
- Minimum Wage rise
- Sugar tax
- Tourist Tax
- Heathrow expansion
Not “the Chancellor is being rumoured to…” , but authoritatively reported as confirmed fact.
Truly bizarre.

Why is a country that hasn't been a functioning democracy in fifteen years in a union of democratic countries?

It doesn't LEAVE because it wants to continue pursuing its antidemocratic agenda inside the union.

7. Now Trump has accepted as his a "peace" proposal hatched in the Kremlin. Its two main points are:
A. Ukraine's actual capitulation to Russia;
B. US seizure of $300bn of Russian frozen state assets, mainly in Europe.