RuamRudy

Surely a joke! If anyone wants to see how Russia 'develops' it's far eastern territories, just Google Nogliki, Kitangli or Petropavlosk Kamchatsky. The locals get quite uppity about Japanese claims to the Kurils but I always thought that if I lived there I would be desperate for the Japanese to come and save us from the total disregard they receive from Russian leadership.

They have to think about the optics though - BP in GOM, Exxon in Prince William Sound etc. The cost of doing regular hydrocarbon business in an Arctic climate is going to be absurdly high; cleaning up a major or even minor spill is going to be astronomical. Will the prize be worth the public opprobrium? Shell has been doing the hokey cokey over Arctic drilling for years - nothing has changed to make the challenges less significant. Royal Dutch Shell pulls plug on Arctic exploration LONDON (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell has abandoned its Arctic search for oil after failing to find enough crude, a move that will appease environmental campaigners and shareholders who said its project was too expensive and risky. The withdrawal came six weeks after the final U.S. clearance and three months after Shell was still defending the project, a rapid change of heart for such a large company that showed it is preparing for a prolonged period of low oil prices while trying to close its $70 billion takeover of rival BG. Shell has spent about $7 billion on exploration in the waters off Alaska so far and said it could take a hit of up to $4.1 billion for pulling out of the treacherous Chukchi Sea, where icebergs can be as large as New York's Manhattan island. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-shell-alaska-idUSKCN0RS0EX20150928/

So was Yaxley Lennon lying when he pled guilty? He should be ashamed.

He literally went to jail for attacking a policeman who tried to stop him from beating up a woman. It doesn't matter what his ex wife said, the fact remains that the coeard beats up women. What's Biden Snr it Jr got to in this case? I am not American and I presume you aren't either. He was found guilty of mortgage fraud. You can try all the whataboutism you like but he is still a convicted fraudster. "FAR-RIGHT HAND Man Tommy Robinson poses for pictures with notorious Dublin heroin dealer He has been heavily involved in organised crime in Ballyfermot for nearly three decades" https://m.sundayworld.com/crime/irish-crime/tommy-robinson-poses-for-pictures-with-notorious-dublin-heroin-dealer/2089141237.html

Contempt of court is a very standard charge levelled in courts the world over. There is nothing special about the charges this woman beating, drug dealing fraudster was found guilty of.

If that was true, they would not have invaded a sovereign country and committed uncountable war crimes. Then why are they invading western countries, carrying out acts of political sabotage, interfering in the democratic processes and committing murder in the west?

I am not a US voter so I neither won nor lost. But you were wholly wrong in your statement - as the numbers show, the majority of people in the US did not support Trump. I am sorry that you have to live with the fact that most Americans do not support him, but it gives the rest of the world hope that the majority of Americans have common sense and morality.

You missed 'A minority of' in front of that sentence. With an electoral roll of 186.5 million in September 2024, 77.3 million US voters backed Trump, which equals 41% of all voters. The majority of Americans did not support Trump in 2024 and, most likely, even more have turned away from him since then. Therefore your statement that the 'American people' trust Trump is patently untrue. Context shows that a significant majority did not put their trust in him.

I have no great love for the royal family, but imagine being born into it and all it's corrupt machinations; the popular press constantly alleging that you are illegitimate; at age 10 being forced to walk miles behind the coffin of you dead mother; growing up in the glare of constant media scrutiny with every little mistake you make being amplified and trumpeted around the world by the press that destroyed your mother; your own father marrying the very marriage wrecker who destroyed your own family life. I would happily see the back of every one of these scroungers, but he is far from the worst of them.

I wish I could be as confident as you, but the English working class has long held dear to its servile, cap doffing inferiority complex - I fear that, once again, they will vote for the party that is most likely to cause them harm, and next time it is going to be Reform.

I don't disagree with any of that. Like many, many people, I dabbled with illegal drugs in my youth. Like most, I was fortunate to come through that phase with no lasting effects. But according to your earlier post, I deserved to die. I stand by my earlier comment - your post was shameful and disgusting.

A shameful, disgusting comment. You know nothing about him or his background, the events that led to him making the choices he made or the circumstances of his taking whatever ended his life.

We have all been young, and most of us foolish to some degree or other. There are more than a few old timers on TV who have commented on these boards about the scrapes and escapades they got up to in their youth; their brushes with or even heavy association with drugs in their younger years. We are all lucky that we made it this far - and luck definitely played a big part in my youth too. Many of us could probably look at this and think 'there but for the grace of god go I'. You do know, don't you, that you can sympathise without condoning his behaviour? He made a fatal mistake - is your heart so hard that your first response is one of scornful contempt?

Attempted stabbing followed by fleeing the scene of an accident, and the consequences are barely a slap on the wrist? If this is realistic, then it's no wonder people are upset.

You can tell their nationality from a blurred out photograph? Remarkable...