It would be a great mistake not to take chauvinism in the Russian society seriously. Not taking it seriously could lead to repeating mistakes made with Putin. A majority of Russians celebrated Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2014, see opinion poll below.

irish boyfriend just reminded me that when we first started talking he kept starting stories with ‘your man’ and i (clueless, english, desperate) sent him a voice note like “just so you know, i don’t have a man”

As the eulogies pour in, here's a friendly reminder that Jerry Lee Lewis was an abusive pedophile who married Myra Gale Brown, his 13-year-old cousin. When Brown filed for divorce, she stated that she had been "subject to every type of physical and mental abuse imaginable."

But if this phantom £50bn fiscal blackhole argument wins and sets the wider economic narrative, then this debate could lead to another lost decade! Just like when the argument over austerity was lost over a decade ago...