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The proposed actions, which can be viewed on the USFS website, are intended to reduce impact while maximizing opportunities.

Someone’s going to have to brief Liz Truss on what’s really going on in Ukraine. Some poor soul will have to strip away the lies that both sides are telling and give her the cold reality - and I wish them the best of luck. Whilst acknowledging that truth’s in short supply over there, I do believe that things are changing rapidly.

They lie: both sides lie like cheap watches.  Yet, through the mists of mendacity, I think there are signs of a sizeable shift in both the politics and strategy of the war in Ukraine.  That shift will, I suspect, become a landslide as the winter affects soldiers and politicians alike, but more of that later.

There’s something either hugely sinister going on – or something astonishingly stupid: I just can’t work out which.

I can think of only two commanders-in-chief in recent history who’ve told their enemies exactly what they were about to do: Presidents Obama and Biden.

Last week Edward Luce, US International Editor of the Financial Times, summed up the changing, global attitudes towards the fighting in Ukraine: “In April the motto (in America) was ‘Russia must lose’: now the motto is ‘$5 for a gallon of gas is too expensive’”.

I do wish they’d both stop lying. I don’t know whether you’d excuse it as propaganda or agitprop, but to me it’s simple lying and it threatens to ratchet the war in Ukraine to a newly lethal level.

He shed light on the military campaigns of TE Lawrence and founded a pioneering ‘community archaeology’ project in Norfolk

Dancing, snowdrops, and loads of live music.

They have decided to replace the gender-specific titles with aviators in a bid to be more modern and appropriate.