Stuart Martin

When Russia first started violating their neighbours airspace I thought the countries should be taking action but now I’m not so sure.

The war in Ukraine isn’t going very well for them it’s possible this is just Russia trying to revitalise its flagging support by opening up another front.

They need some big foreign institution they can blame all their problems on and campaign to leave because this has been very good for their careers thus far.

I find this new trend of people 'interviewing' politicians on the street.

I know politicians should be accessible to the public but i can't help but think how i would feel if some people ambushed me with a microphone and a camera when i was trying to catch the train.

When did it become acceptable to take your dogs into cafes?

What if I’m allergic to dogs? What if I’d like to take my kids who are scared of dogs? What if I don’t want food covered in dog hair?

My first foreign trip alone was to Stockholm in my early 20’s.

I had a great time and the fact I was able to manage the whole thing by myself was an incredible confidence boost.

I packed loads of jumpers expecting it to be cold (because Sweden obviously) and there was a heatwave, go figure!

The changes to the law on ID for buying alcohol/cigarettes a few years ago mean that most young people are forced to have some form of ID be it a drivers license, passport, young scot card etc.

I don’t understand how rolling them all into one big scheme is a massive invasion of privacy!

The hysterical overreaction to ID cards is making me laugh.

Do the people having a meltdown not have a drivers license, passport or national insurance number?

This has been a busy couple of weeks for news and the BBC is absolutely let itself down, its really highlighted how bad its coverage has become.

Its budget season and the nations top business leaders are coming together to say workers already get paid enough and please don’t tax us.

Won’t somebody please think of the poor billionaires at this difficult time?

I understand the right wing outrage industrial complex shifting into action but should the BBC really be part of this!?

The people who has spent all summer trying to incite riots in the UK have now shifted their attention to the US having failed here!

Does Reform still have the same appeal as a disruptor if it is full of failed Tory MP's?

Also it is amazing to me that people like Nadine Doris don't realise the public got wise to them a while a go.They are the reason the conservatives are so unpopular right now.

They should be doing a better job getting the message out that this is the tories mess and they are cleaning it up by processing claims instead of letting these hotels fill with people!

Incredibly funny watching the conservatives making demands about how Labour are supposed to tidy up their mess!

Not saying this is the start of a coup but if it was the important first step would be getting the police and whoever out of the way and putting your loyalists in control of security in the capital.

These guys spend all day on twitter talking amongst themselves about how bad things are, it’s no wonder they haven’t got a clue what the world is really like.

Found the first part of the Economist podcast series on the hunt for Austin Tice really interesting.

Now, i need to find out how i can listen to the next two parts...

Quick trip to Facebook reminded me just how insane the 'cash is king' never use card people are.

Do they even know what coins & banknotes are?

Like British Conservatives and the EU, the Republican party mainstream now no longer believes in democracy.

So Trump can issue EO's that directly contradict the constitution, a foundational document that these judges practically worship, and presumably only Congress and the Supreme Court can stop him?

The Supreme Court aspect of the American democratic set up has not only been a been a unique failure and really holds the nation back.

North Korea also has China as a guarantor of its security.

Iran doesn't really have a relationship with any country like that, unless you count Russia but no one is really scared of them any more.

There’s a spectrum of ways to report what has happened to the Gaza aid ship from Isreal heroically saving the misguided from becoming Hamas’ latest kidnap victims to the IDF kidnapping heroic good samaritans. Where the report falls on this spectrum gives a good idea where the author is coming from.

When you realise your new boyfriend was only using you for your money.

It’s funny that Nigel Farage is Mr Brexit, nobody did more to ‘achieve’ it than him, but The Conservatives have become the Brexit cultist party.

President Bidens cognitive decline and the cover up is one of the greatest scandals of our age, if he had been moved on when he needed to be Trump might never have been elected.

But sure, get mad at journalists for trying to piece together what happened!

If the US decided to invade Greenland and Denmark is in NATO then the rest of NATO would respond. NATO isn’t just the United States.

If Denmark formed a peace alliance literally any other nation would that stop them any more than NATO would?

I always want to ask people who think this what a ‘peace alliance’ would look like if it’s not nato? A desire for peace or to be left alone must be backed up by military strength or it doesn’t work.

The rise of YouTube has been a godsend for people like me, desperately looking up ‘how to eat spaghetti with a spoon’ in an Italian restaurant