Saddam Hussein was executed after a long and open trial on January December 30, 2006. This is not a particularly important anniversary but ...

The Ukrainian situation at present is both complex and somewhat opaque, the latter meaning that it is not clear where any of it is going. Th...

Time for me to spread my usual Christmas gloom and misery. Let us start with that iconic Christmas book, Charles Dickens's magnificen...

Three months before they were due out Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Mariya Alyokhina were released. They immediately announced that this was al...

Well, I was wrong but I was also right. I said that the hastily issued amnesty will not extend to Mikhail Khodorkovsky and it did not. Never...

Readers of this blog will know that I do not think the EU is either like Nazi Germany or like the Soviet Union. Anyone who looks at the thre...

Read that title and marvel that we can even have such a row. Can you really believe it that some universities and their unions allow gender ...