[…] in their attitudes to public services, including the intelligence services; and b) when there is no popular culture to reinforce HMG and all its parts – Mr Putin is not going to declare war, even if Russian undergraduates are hacking into our computers. Aware of this, the SIS seek to impress us with its […]
[…] the centuries. The election of Obama and the ideological trend during the present Russian interregnum towards a more liberal, post-soviet, less autocratic and statist Russia (despite the Putin years) certainly shows this. Yet, he correctly adduces, ‘even for Obama overcoming racism may prove to be easier than abandoning imperialism’. Russia too, as Georgia demonstrated […]
[…] reviewers, I found it tedious and oddly fascinating at the same time. While I read/skimmed it I marked the bits that struck me. Minus the section on Putin discussed elsewhere in this issue, these few are they. 1994 Blair trying to persuade Campbell to take the job with him: ‘He said I was right […]
[…] channelled through London PR companies presided over by a retinue of former new Labour special advisers. The PR people want to shift public sympathy away from Vladimir Putin, who is at odds with several oligarchs, and they are no doubt delighted that the project has led to a paper criticising Downing Street’s closeness to […]
[…] with redistribution or defending the interests of the very poor or disadvantaged. This is the ‘creative destruction’ of enthusiastic supporters of modernisation and the reason why Vladimir Putin is President of the Russian Federation after several years of brutal kleptocratic oligarchical capitalism. The people had had enough of shock treatment. The aim is always […]
[…] an advocate of the Hindu mystic Gurdjieff; and Vladimir Styrne, a Bolshevik who had his own parents shot as reactionaries, who has just been rehabilitated by President Putin and is now duly celebrated with his own postage stamp. The ability of these figures to live on, via the Internet, is one of the technical […]
[PDF file]: […] fade away quietly as they should. The legend now seems to be attaching itself to China, after a claim appeared in January 2023 that Russian President Vladimir Putin was in negotiations with a Chinese manufacturer to procure a new fleet of 21 mobile crematoriums.12 The story originated with a pseudonymous account on Telegram, a […]
[…] fade away quietly as they should. The legend now seems to be attaching itself to China, after a claim appeared in January 2023 that Russian President Vladimir Putin was in negotiations with a Chinese manufacturer to procure a new fleet of 21 mobile crematoriums.12 The story originated with a pseudonymous account on Telegram, a […]
[PDF file]: […] demanded the death penalty for Chelsea Manning; supported waterboarding (which was not torture, she thought; and even if it was, so what?); and in 2013 recommended Vladimir Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize. It seems that it was her performance at Fox News that earned her a place in the Trump administration. And what […]
[PDF file]: […] combination of xenophobic politicians, dodgy businesses and Mafia bosses, all propped up by increasingly repressive military and security establishments looking to Moscow rather than Brussels and Washington. Putin, a former KGB officer unwilling and unable (it is said) to escape from the secretive and authoritarian mindset typical of that organisation, has embarked on an […]
