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...

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...

  “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...

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...

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....

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...