That would be to mistake the German Green party for Britain's bourgeois watermelon fringe movement. The two things are very different beasts. As the party will continue to view the use of military fo… (View Post)

The Ukrainians may be lying. The Russians must be lying. The Russian Government is about as well acquainted with the truth as our Prime Minister. (View Post)

Indeed. If Looney Tunes is allowed his way over Ukraine, he'll interpret that as just another sign of weakness and keep on pushing Westwards. He'll start claiming that oppressed Russian minorities in… (View Post)

As I believe the Kenyan ambassador to the UN remarked a few days back, virtually all of the borders in Africa were drawn by colonial powers, frequently cutting across linguistic and kinship boundarie… (View Post)

It would be supremely ironic if Russia's war in Ukraine failed because Putin's political system - based on enabled larceny from office-holders - had left its army so bereft of fuel and supplies that … (View Post)