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.
According to the Financial Times, Western support for Israel’s assault on Gaza “has undone months of work to paint Moscow as a global pariah for breaching international law”.
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.
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.
Laurence Fox cancelled me just minutes before he got cancelled, says Ian Rons. Ian was due to debate him about the war in Ukraine and came up to London specially – but Fox pulled out at the last minute.
On 22 September, the Canadian parliament gave a standing ovation to a 98-year-old man who "fought for Ukrainian independence against the Russians". What they didn't mention is that he served in the Waffen SS.
The Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has hit back at the defunding of the defence industry in the name ESG, saying it threatens peace and security. But do the woke activists care?
In this week's London Calling, the argument is about whether the rained-out English summer has been inflicted on us by a cabal of malevolent billionaires, or if it's just... you know, the weather.
Ian Rons isn't convinced by Seymour Hersh's latest 'scoop' and suspects a Russian intelligence asset may have tricked the investigative journalist into publishing anti-Ukraine propaganda.
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.
