'Historians will look back in bafflement at the gullibility of Western leaders in their response to Vladimir Putin.'

Ian Birrell in i newspaper

inews.co.uk/news/world/put…

Have no doubt: Russia is at war with us.

Putin’s aim is to sow divisions in democracies, disrupt our lives, stretch security agencies and show his people he is hitting back at the West - but have our leaders finally woken up?

My i newspaper column inews.co.uk/opinion/have-n…

Children should not be diagnosed with a personality disorder in the UK openletter.earth/children-shoul…?

Have no doubt: Russia is at war with us.

Putin’s aim is to sow divisions in democracies, disrupt our lives, stretch security agencies and show his people he is hitting back at the West - but have our leaders finally woken up?

My i newspaper column inews.co.uk/opinion/have-n…

As one Baltic diplomatic source told me: 'Moscow cannot start a concerted war against Nato but it is trying every other possible measure to challenge the West and disrupt our lives.'

Factory fires, cyber attacks, derailments and jamming of aviation signals - my MoS article on intelligence fears that Russia is brazenly stepping up attacks on Western targets mol.im/a/13408007

Georgia swells with protests under the boot of a billionaire - good to see this Inna Lazareva report on the country's massive mood of resistance to Russia, given under-reporting in Western media of these significant events thetimes.co.uk/article/georgi…

As one Baltic diplomatic source told me: 'Moscow cannot start a concerted war against Nato but it is trying every other possible measure to challenge the West and disrupt our lives.'

Factory fires, cyber attacks, derailments and jamming of aviation signals - my MoS article on intelligence fears that Russia is brazenly stepping up attacks on Western targets mol.im/a/13408007

Another massive protest in Georgia tonight underlining their determination to resist Russia

Like vultures feasting on a rotting corpse, all those hard-right egotists who have worked so hard to destroy the Tory party now seem to be planning their own populist parties. First Farage, then Cummings and now Goodwin… order-order.com/2024/05/10/mat…

In the opening words of this UN charter: a determination ‘to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war…and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small’

This is entertaining, informative - and a depressing reflection on the state of our democracy

'We are going to get rid of the policy straight away. I am not going to continue a policy that is expensive and doesn't work'

Very good to hear Keir Starmer state unequivocally that he will ditch a flawed asylum policy simply pumping money into the pocket of Rwanda's dictator

I don't think people realize how much climate pollution is produced by beef.

Per pound (or kg) it emits -- on average -- about 60 pounds (or kg) of greenhouse gases. See below.

For comparison, one pound of gasoline releases about ~4 pounds of greenhouse gases.

Toomaj Salehi’s cause is for everyone who believes in freedom - spot on by Daniel Finkelstein

thetimes.co.uk/article/11bd5a…

Brave woman 👇