Yusuf is upset, because the truth is almost certainly that they've taken Russian money not for services provided, exactly, but because their ideology and strategic goals are aligned, and he knows that's a weedy distinction that isn't going to save them.

He's a Russian asset, but he self identifies as a British patriot.

What would a Russian asset say when asked if he's a Russian asset?

Traffic controls in Rome?

Nun.

But poor people need to learn to live within their means

!?

For whom are you speaking?

But it feels like he's being obliged to speak to leftist economic nerds with nods to MMT, when there's really no need to startle nervous moderates by reaching beyond conventional economics.

Polanski does well to recognise constraints, including the long-term necessity (but current impossibility) of broad tax rises.

Green Party policy is to work within NATO to achieve a greater focus on global peacebuilding and a commitment to a ‘No First Use’ of nuclear weapons.

Is that so disturbing?