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July 24, 2025
From hero to zero

Western leaders wake up to the realisation that President Zelensky isn’t a corruption fighting democrat after all.

July 22, 2025
Ukrainian bots want the BBC to endorse war crimes in its reporting

Trolling on X takes a new and sinister turn, Ian Proud writes.

July 16, 2025
Trump has backed himself into a corner on Ukraine

He now has fifty days to reach agreement on Ukrainian neutrality

July 2, 2025
It must surely be time to end Russia sanctions and develop a new plan to bring peace and prosperity to Ukraine

sanctions will only ever embolden Russia to keep fighting rather than making peace.

June 20, 2025
Europe needs a revolution of common sense. And it starts in Hungary

A revolution of common sense is starting in Budapest. In a multipolar world, Europe needs to become internally multipolar or risk falling apart.

June 18, 2025
The definition of insanity – reading a neocon think tank report on Russia

Let’s do what we’ve been doing for a decade and hope for a different result

June 14, 2025
Ten times bullshit

No one will be scared by the UK Strategic Defence Review but British people should be

June 12, 2025
Europe’s latest sanctions show that it is heading for disaster

Friedrich Merz won’t survive a single term in office and France will be the next country to exit the EU, triggering an implosion of the project.

June 11, 2025
Ukraine has consistently over-sold the number of children moved to Russia since war began

Progress on return of 339 children might still be a helpful step in the right direction

June 3, 2025
A peace deal in Istanbul won’t happen until NATO is off the table

Failure and being seen to fail on NATO will deliver a huge political blow to western leaders who will keep kicking the peace can down the road.