John McCain nailed it in this 2014 BBC interview: "He [Putin] cannot afford to see a free, democratic and prosperous Ukraine because the Russian people then would like to be like Ukraine"

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Not a petrolhead, but when an old Aston Martin V8 pulls out of a car park as you walk by...

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The kind of morning where it takes four attempts to get each leg in the right pant-hole 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Untitled (Modern Olympia), 2011, by Ida Applebroog, from @metmuseum.org 😁

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We lived in the shadow of the war for longer: it took 3 yrs for the PoWs to go home, rationing till 1954, bomb sites still undeveloped in the late 70s, Sunday afternoon films on TV after that. The old soldiers and the former evacuees. Living with the war, rather than through it.

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Some English farmers are turning their backs on green farming and embracing a “productivist” approach, after thousands failed to access a post-Brexit subsidy scheme that pays them to look after nature. www.ft.com/content/a8c9...

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