Idiots do occasionally have a certain rat like cunning.

To manage things for the benefit of the wealthy until the Tories sort themselves out, as it more or less always has been.

They can afford flights though down there.

I think we can rule that out pretty much right away: a "Great British capital gains tax for Kiev" seems an unlikely move for Rachel Reeves.

Ignoring it and restating your own message would make more sense, but they can't help themselves, still somehow thinking that this time the witty expose will do the trick.

Hence "Branson shaped" rather than "Branson" himself. This model is useless if we want to build anything better.

Whatever the legal status of various parts of the network now or in the future, major investment is what will improve it & that means investment strategies aimed at creating a network like numerous other countries have managed. Kick all the profit making elements out, specially Branson shaped ones.

Might spook a few centrists but obviously the network needs to taken into state control. I've been in countries that are classed as developing nations with public transport networks that makes ours look like a cruel joke.

Though best to remember the Chinese notion that their public can change policies but not the party, whereas we can, (could), change party but not the policies.
Which is what got us here.

I have friends who've officially observed Russian elections, & lived in Moscow myself for 4 of them. They look very much like western elections, all the same trappings are there.
As in soviet times the election becomes a ritual to be observed, a show of fealty for some, just more noise to most.

The second they start pulling on that thread their entire universe collapses: true captains go down with the ship.

Or Russians have been giving us since about 2012. At least we'll get to see whether the angry flag people on twitter really would stand up if they lived there.

Whereas Netanyahu is not. Perhaps we might look for some other measure by which to judge such matters.

I guess you'd only find out if they unexpectedly found that their success depended on a turn to the monstrous.