I hold no brief for Blair, and have never voted Labour, but I do not beleive that he beleived he was lying. Indeed in his reponse to the Chilcot inquiry he says: "I did not mislead this country.… (View Post)

The Tories cannot get away with a wholesale rewrite of history. The vote to authorise British troops which took place in the House of Commons on 18th March 2003 was as follows: Aye: 412, of which 254… (View Post)

One of the characteristics of evil is a complete inifference to human suffering. The Putin regime qualifies high on that score. Indeed their contempt for human life borders on the psychopathic. (View Post)

Swedish Carl Bildt and Finnish Alexander Stubb (who BTW has a British wife and a PhD from the LSE) have merely noted that the Conservative Party and the Leave campaign were up to their necks in Russi… (View Post)

Just arrived in a very spring like Cambridge for a Baltic event here. I came from Tallinn via Warsaw over the weekend and the situation in Poland is quite a bit different from that I had imagined. Fi… (View Post)