Ukraine

Ukraine: droning on

August 3, 2025 3:13 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Although it’s my own observation, it really has worked out to be true that the media can only handle one... View Article

Media: a lack of depth

May 29, 2025 3:31 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

In the ultimate insult to its dwindling audience, the BBC fronts its latest report from Ukraine with Indian national, Yogita... View Article

Ukraine: carrying the load

May 27, 2025 2:48 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

For all the obvious reasons, I hate it when yet another of these people-crunching episodes occurs. But also unwelcome –... View Article

Ukraine: walking away

April 19, 2025 3:24 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

From top of the news agenda in early March, it is difficult now to discern the relative importance of the... View Article

Ukraine: too costly to lose

April 15, 2025 3:24 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Whenever I read a piece by Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, the Telegraph’s tank warfare guru, I am reminded of the old... View Article

Ukraine: slow-motion ceasefire

March 31, 2025 3:24 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

There is much chatter on the legacy media and elsewhere, conveying the frustration of Donald Trump over his inability to... View Article

Ukraine: motley of the unwilling

March 21, 2025 3:29 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Any hopes that Starmer had of his “peacekeeping” initiative for Ukraine yielding a “Falklands dividend” at the polls must surely... View Article

Ukraine: noisy speculation

March 14, 2025 2:32 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

It would be possible to expend a great deal of time and energy assessing the ceasefire deal in Ukraine being... View Article

Politics: a tale of two “wars”

March 8, 2025 3:13 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Addressing the “real” war first, recently in this blog, I observed that, despite the high politics attending the Ukraine conflict,... View Article

Ukraine: casting a long shadow

March 7, 2025 3:26 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Less than three weeks ago, I was writing about Starmer’s attempt to insert himself into the Ukraine debate that was... View Article

Ukraine: a moment of incoherence

March 6, 2025 2:26 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

One of the problems with trying to follow complex, fast-moving events is the spread of response times between the various... View Article

Ukraine: a beneficial crisis?

March 5, 2025 2:04 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

At the time of writing, according to the Wall Street Journal and many other sources, Trump was to address a... View Article

Ukraine: the path to defeat

March 4, 2025 3:01 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

I saw an ill-natured piece in the Guardian recently, which I didn’t bother to record, but did note that the... View Article

Ukraine: a lack of belief

March 3, 2025 2:51 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

“Our starting point”, says Starmer, in his remarks at the “international leaders’ summit conference” yesterday, “must be to put Ukraine... View Article

Politics: bolstering the delusions

March 2, 2025 3:15 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Obviously, I cannot speak for Trump. In fact, it has been made abundantly clear that no-one can speak for Trump,... View Article

Ukraine: broken bridges

March 1, 2025 2:31 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

If nothing else, yesterday we got a classic “diplomacy 101” lesson. Basically, what this amounted to was: don’t come to... View Article