Keep Politics Out Of Sport?
Keep politics out of sport they tell us whenever we object to playing games with tyrants. Until now when the tyrant is Putin, when it is game over.
Just when is it deemed okay to seize properties?
WE are all well accustomed to the hypocrisy, lies and outright corruption from the Tory government, but this hypocrisy stared us in the face this week when police evicted squatters…
Sanctions against Russia? Not when it comes to their gas
DESPITE the West calling for and implementing sanctions against Russia, it appears this doesn’t include Russian gas. Gas exports from Russia to Europe, via Ukraine it should be noted, have…
Russia ramps up attacks
WE began the week with warmongering voices coming mainly from the West, in particular the US, but I don’t think many of us expected the situation to escalate so quickly,…
Russia – Ukraine: Sanctions? What Sanctions?
Why has the UK response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine been so weak? Boris Johnson has previously declared he would come down, “like a steel trap in the event of…
Nazanin’s husband on fresh hunger strike
WITH the news that British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has lost an appeal against a second jail sentence in Iran, her husband announced over the weekend that he is to…