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Epic trolling by the Czechs!
Prague renames square in front of Russian embassy after slain Putin critic Boris Nemtsov Ok, that is pretty damn good. But this… The Russian embassy in Prague did not respond to a request for comment,...
View ArticleCome to think of it, comrades, I do want Jones back
George Orwell, Animal Farm: “Surely, comrades, you do not want Jones back?” Once again this argument was unanswerable. Certainly the animals did not want Jones back; if the holding of debates on Sunday...
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Weakness and lies beget horrors of every kind
Anyone who cares about our liberty and security (the two are deeply entwined) needs to work tirelessly to ensure the future does not belong to tyrants, be they tyrants in Russia, China, or much closer...
View ArticleThe Americocentric delusion
I am seeing a phenomenon being floridly expressed today, but it is something I have observed for many years: nothing happens in the world, at least nothing good, unless the malign USA is driving it....
View ArticleVlad the Mad?
I’ve seen this idea expressed a couple of times in the last day. Here’s Nigel Farage: I always thought that we were dealing with somebody who was actually very logical. But I now begin to wonder...
View Article“If he were killing a mouse, he would know how to make it seem like a dragon.”
I offer two bits of the anglosphere’s past to help us understand two bits of the Russian present. Firstly, “I should like to put it on record that I have never been able to dislike Hitler. … The fact...
View ArticleTrump Derangement Syndrome is writing a job description for Trump and not...
“I don’t think it’s a bad thing for the people who report to Putin to read that Westerners are outraged by what they’re seeing—outraged to the point of recklessness. Just as we’re wondering if Putin is...
View ArticleNet Zero is “in Nigel Farage’s sights”
I have considerable respect for the Guardian‘s John Harris. Though a Remainer himself, he was one of the first left-wing journalists to see that the campaign to leave the European Union had popular...
View ArticleOr maybe not
The internet is awash with armchair generals (not that there’s anything wrong with being an armchair general – I am one myself) telling us that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is not going according to...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day
In the 1480s, complaints lodged by Casimir’s envoys accumulated in Moscow: “thieves” from Muscovy were raiding across the border, burning, and pillaging villages, sowing terror. Ivan professed...
View ArticleA soldier returns Part I
Lindybeige (1.2m YouTube subscribers) hardly needs our endorsement but this interview with a British member of the Ukrainian Foreign Legion is excellent. Organisation, disorganisation, treachery,...
View ArticleA helpful Finnish instructional video from 1979
Dear all, As we wind down for Christmas, it is important to ensure that we keep ourselves safe, and I have found this wonderful but short instructional video, purportedly from Finland c. 1979,...
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