I’m watching this thing on BBC2 about the grunts in the Russian army and their disaffection with the Ukrainian conflict. Russia looks a fairly grim place, the land, the military camps and the people themselves.
One thing about them is that every man, woman and child of them appear to smoke. I wouldn’t worry about drone attacks if I were them, those Russian Woodbines are equally lethal.
They’re down about 1.2m bodies to date but Putin insists on slogging on. He’s clearly keeping an eye on Enoch Burke and drawing on his resilience.
I watched Swindlers there now - dealing with Dublin solicitor Thomas Byrne whose empire collapsed with €52bn of a shortfall.
Two of his victims were a father & son combination from Walkinstown by the name of Matthew and Terry Connors. They were absolutely riding the tiger buying and building houses and acquired a wee portfolio of 14 properties before the whole thing blew up in their faces.
Incredibly they were sanguine about the whole thing despite years of grief and losing their collective shirts. Their acceptance of their fate was admirable.
