Recent content by fgh1

But that is made in contrast to today, so its irrelevant because many English folk are also on the breadline today, and its an icreasing problem - can wash down with some prosecco though.

I sense an oven baked caricaturisation on hand. Racism? overused, and triggered people casting too broad strokes and not looking at the positive developments. Truth is some where in between the extremes of course. Are there issues ? sure, but loads of progress as been made too.

The last I checked, we're in 2022. Anyway, how are the gas bill payments going ? could do with a 2nd zero-hour job, no ?. If you're juxtaposing US vs USSR then fair enough, but that is a rather outdated contrast and not as relevant as many of the issues the USSR experienced are slowly...

Aside from the technological slant, how is any of that indicative of a western lifestyle ? unless you are willing to suggest that markets, travel, goods, commodities, cities are a western construct which were foreign to the world, including Russia and its predecessors.