“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 few virtues is I say what I think.” President Hose Mujica of Uruguay He could live in a huge palace […]
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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 to read this guy – as I will explain. Particularly as our idiotic Education Secretary has banned them all! Like their
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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 those people were sidelined back in the early nineties when Russia was deemed too weak to bother keeping close tabs on.
Big Mistake not to Understand Russia Read More »
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. There are a lot of disenfranchised people in this world, looking for ways to make their lives count for something. This
Inequality has Grounded the Star Man Read More »
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 pales into insignificance compared to the corruption of Ukraine. These latest murders in Odessa are being taken very seriously in Russia,
No Comment from Putin – or Obama Read More »
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 with the telephone cable round her neck, and the flowers she was watering smashed on the floor), and other women raped
Ukraine Civil War Now Inevitable Read More »