Much as I would like to be with you all tonight, I am otherwise engaged, amongst other things I´m also an Honorary Consul in Estonia and have been dealing with citizens of the country who have been c… (View Post)

Greetings from an anxious and weary Estonia. Its a schizophrenic time. Tallinn has no metro, so the City Council is checking underground carparks and world war two shelters to see if a public shelter… (View Post)

Agreed, the critical British contribution has been via five eyes and the NLAWs, but Johnson (ironically) worked well with Macron in the good cop/bad cop attempt to save peace. However, I dont´think t… (View Post)

The war is building into a massacre of Ukrainian civilians. It is proof how desparate the Russian side now is. They are pushing on all fronts and sadly they are making progress just through simple sa… (View Post)

FWIW, I am hearing from friends with contacts in Russia that there are some very serious conversations going on across the regime and we may see some serious attempt to "resolve" the proble… (View Post)