News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Since mid-March 2022, historian Anatol Lieven has been saying that Ukraine has “already won”. They successfully defended their capital, thereby forcing the Russians to regroup for a more limited war in the East.
Last year, the Foreign Office sanctioned pro-Putin blogger Graham Phillips, the first time it has sanctioned a UK citizen. Peter Hitchens says if we don't object, other critics of the Govt's foreign policy could be next.
A survey has found that in 30 out of 30 European countries, a majority of people believe that the sanctions against Russia have hurt Europe and helped both the US and China.
The former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has claimed that “the Ukrainians did not agree to peace because they were not allowed to”. He is now the fifth person to state that the West opposed a peace deal.
From Putin to Hamas and Ilham Aliyev to Xi Jinping, a wide array of actors appears to have got the memo that rules aren't important and the way to get things done is through 'policy by design', says Dr David McGrogan.
In April 2022, M.L.R. Smith and Niall McCrae drew on their extensive Cold War knowledge to offer provisional analysis of the Russian war in Ukraine. Eighteen months later they look back at how their conclusions held up.
The former head of Interpol, Björn Eriksson says his chief security concern now is the erasure of cash, as worries grow about the vulnerability of electronic payment systems to attack.
Ian Rons made the mistake of reading an article by an American conservative arguing for an end to aid for Ukraine. The ignorance was almost bottomless.
Time is not on the side of Ukraine in its long-running counter-offensive, says Colonel Richard Kemp, as it is battling not just against the strongest Russian defences but also the clock of U.S. electoral politics.
Nigel Farage has claimed his bank accounts have been shut down to force him out of the U.K. due to his position on Brexit and accusations that he has taken money from Vladimir Putin's regime in Russia.
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