The war in Ukraine has not gone the way many more Kremlin-friendly sources would have predicted in February. Even for myself, whilst I thoug...

  A picture of Queen Elizabeth II, seen in Gatwick airport on Monday as I passed through In spite of the fact that her health had been fadin...

  As the BBC reminded us a few days back , this week marks 30 years since the start of the siege of Sarajevo. For nearly four years the city...

  Present Ukrainian situation map, via Wiki Seven years ago I wrote about the similarities between Russia's invasion of Crimea and Donba...

  Putin, via www.kremlin.ru For decades Putin has dominated Russian politics, and during that time many have credited Vladimir Putin with po...

A French soldier carrying a Swedish-made AT-4 anti-tank weapon, via Wikipedia Some thoughts on the events of recent days: I do not blame ord...

Like most followers of world affairs today, today was a difficult day to concentrate, to focus, on anything. Instead a numbing feeling of ...

  Election advertising at the Kleve Tiergarten, August 2021 We are a month and a bit after "Freedom Day" was declared by Boris Joh...

So, as seemed inevitable from the beginning of December, we entered the third lockdown of the pandemic here in the UK and have been stuck in...

So the UK, a bit later than some other European countries, is now finally relaxing its lockdown, though it seems we are now faced with mon...

"The greatest decade in the history of mankind is over. And as Presuming Ed here has so consistently pointed out, we have failed to pa...

So, after three years of wavering between glimmers of hope that Brexit might not actually happen, and the crashing realisation that it was s...

I could not go myself today to the local war memorial for the two minutes silence, young children do not understand such things and I coul...

Kharis Templeman, of the Stanford Taiwan Democracy & Security Project, has been pointing out some interesting developments in recent yea...