Obama fails in claiming “Victory” over Putin
I’ve already written about the problem of winning wars these days. How Do We Win the Afghan War? The secret is to get your definition of victory accepted… This is a big PR stunt for...
Hugh McManners Blog
Nobody Wants Ukraine – and never did…
Among the many things conveniently forgotten in this recent Ukraine crisis, is that the EU was never going to accept Ukraine for membership. It’s too corrupt and disorganised with politicians who are down-right bad. In...
Tribute to President Hose Mujica of Uruguay
“Now I’m a prisoner of my own freedom to think and decide as I wish. I cultivate that freedom and fight for it. I may make mistakes, some huge, but one of my...
Edward St Aubyn Baffles Me
I’ve just read a long article in the New Yorker about English literary fiction writer Edward St Aubyn. The Yanks have so many great modern writers, I’m baffled as to why do they want...
Big Mistake not to Understand Russia
What a difference twenty years makes… We used to have intelligence experts who understood Russia, through all its turmoils from Imperial serfdom, communism, Soviet Union through to western acolyte as a Democracy-in-Waiting. But all...
Inequality has Grounded the Star Man
I’ve just read a leaflet from The Socialist Party, punting for the European Parliament Elections in two weeks, as part of the World Socialist Movement. I loved what I read. But it’s not a solution....
No Comment from Putin – or Obama
I’ve spent time in Russia and am totally up-to-date with the intense Russian debate over this whole crisis. I am very much not a supporter of Putin – or Russian corruption. But the latter...
Ukraine Civil War Now Inevitable
So how responsible can an ex-KCB advocatus diaboli president be for events that he predicted? For the strangling of a heavily-pregnant ethnic Russian cleaner trying to do her job in Odessa’s Trade Unions House (pictured above...
MP Complains about subsidised boozing! – in the Army
A UK defence minister Anna Soubry was so upset that troops are only charged £1 for a triple gin and tonic that she’s out to ban drinking in the Armed Forces. She’d ordered the...
One Fifth of British Army Medically Non-Deployable
The future reduced British Army seems likely to be able to deploy little more than half the numbers of trained soldiers it had in 1991. A Freedom of Information Act question was answered last...
