In the previous post I suggested:  ... the Venezuela adventure is ... forcing Putin to eat more shit as he is lamely reduced to asking that ...

... though these days, such is the sheer strength of Putin's international positioning, they must be very, very nice to them.  And send...

He's already winding him up mercilessly.  The context is that Putin's very substantial and prickly pride has been deeply wounded by ...

Here's a seriously good offering by a heavyweight US historian of the geopolitics of the modern age.  We all have our amateur views on ...

It may seem perverse to wonder whether the USA is withdrawing into an isolationist shell only a couple of days after it has orchestrated a r...

We've previously had occasion to recommend the wit & wisdom of Dilbert author Scott Adams.    Adams is ( inter alia ) a trained hy...

It is really quite worrying that this is being discussed. What lesson should we really learn, to me the obvious one is that we desperately...

We have written in the past many a post on C @W dissecting and analysing the Bay of Pigs and the Cuba Missile Crisis. It was after all, the...

Readers of a certain vintage will remember the good Croydonian and his fine public service blog that monitored, well, all sorts of mad stuf...

OK folks, it's hot enough for the Silly Season to be declared open.  Jong-un the wrong 'un has decided North Korea needs to get itse...