Putin says he would like to be president again please!

So the biggest surprise of the week is that after a long and careful assesssment, Vladimir Putin has decided that he has a pretty good chance of winning the election next March and has announced he will be standing in order to remain the Russian boss for another six years. How Rishi Sunak must be glowing with envy. Putin knows he is going to win because the main opposition politician is in jail and no one else will dare to stand against him. So it's a fait accompli or whatever the equivalent is in Russian. Sunak on the other hand has such a tiny chance of winning the next election that he must already be planning his future a long way away from 10 Downing Street. There are so many things going wrong, in particular his extraordinary immigration policy under which unsuitable asylum seekers are sent to Rwanda, that the general picture coming out of Downing Street is mayhem. But, even though his war in Ukraine hasn't been going too well, Putin seems to be able to rise above it all and can look forward to another six years and is no doubt wondering whether to move on from Ukraine and start annoying Poland and the Baltic nations. Bizarre thing to say, but perhaps Donald Trump might be the only one who can stop him!