Politics: implications of Ukraine’s defeat
April 18, 2024 2:35 am Post a CommentOne wonders whether Sunak is aware of the parlous state in which Ukraine finds itself. But it seems hard to... View Article
Tag Archive: Nato
Foreign affairs: war clouds in the Balkans
March 20, 2024 3:44 am Post a CommentNothing ever seems to be settled permanently. A long while ago, we thought we had put the spectre of war... View Article
Defence: a call to arms
January 25, 2024 1:52 am Post a CommentReports of ammunition shortages in Ukraine are part of an increasingly pessimistic picture coming from the region. This has pundits speculating... View Article
Ukraine: mood music
September 29, 2023 1:32 am Post a CommentIt’s a while since I’ve posted on Ukraine, but that does not mean that I regard the situation there as... View Article
Ukraine: need to try harder
July 13, 2023 3:25 am Post a CommentIt is way beyond the point of irony that “Presenter X”, finally revealed as Huw Edwards, should be a man... View Article
Media: a matter of priorities
July 10, 2023 2:33 am Post a CommentIt says something of the state of the nation that the dominant theme in today’s media is the behaviour of... View Article
Ukraine: the cupboard is bare
February 15, 2023 1:49 am Post a CommentOne of the reasons, we now learn, why Zelensky was so keen to get hold of Western artillery and tanks... View Article
Defence: a necessary debate
January 11, 2023 2:15 am Post a CommentLooking inside the British Army, I wrote recently, one might get the impression that it is about as capable of... View Article
Defence: the shape of the Army
December 27, 2022 2:28 am Post a CommentIrresistible bait from Gen. Richard Dannat posits that those who thought at this time last year that Vladimir Putin would... View Article
Ukraine: killing it slowly
June 30, 2022 2:32 am Post a CommentDespite their heroic resistance, it looks very much as if the Ukrainian defenders of Lysychansk are being squeezed out of... View Article
Ukraine: Johnson the liability
June 29, 2022 2:16 am Post a CommentMarina Hyde makes some good points in her current column about Johnson (the “treehouse guy”) and his support for Ukraine.... View Article
Ukraine: ending the war
March 25, 2022 3:36 am Post a CommentI’ve never followed Nato politics with anything like the same intensity that I did those of the European Union but,... View Article