The constant drumbeat of, frankly, insane talk about nuclear weapons and who will launch the first strike over the last couple of weeks, has gotten well and truly out of control by now. The rhetoric...

This week has certainly been eventful in the world of geopolitics. Prime Minister Chucky is out, as I pointed out yesterday, after a brief, disastrous, and totally ignominious reign that saw the...

If the events of the past few days have proven anything, it is that toadying up to Clown Prince Zarnulf of Hy-Bandera is hazardous to a politician's career prospects. The Curse of the Dummy...

The Russian phrase in the title is their way of saying, "happy birthday" - it literally translates as, "with the day of birth" - and today is, in fact, someone's birthday. No, it is not mine - but...

It's been a very long and crazy week, yet one which whizzed by very quickly, somehow. Today, however, was a momentous day to end it all. The world changed forever today, and we have the Neo-Tsar and...

This one will be relatively short, as I have been up since 6am my time and on the road, so to speak, for... uh... add the one, carry the three... about 7 hours, all told. I've been dealing with the...

Gents, I just got back earlier today from a short trip to an event that involved a lot of words that would normally make me swear a blue streak. These include "networking", "socialising", and - most...

This has unquestionably been a difficult week for my friends in PommieBastardLande. The death of Her Majesty, Elizabeth II, has rocked the nation, but it does not come as any great surprise. Let's...

We often find ourselves marvelling at the sheer stupidity of Western leaders - it is almost as if God designed some sort of highly sophisticated sorting machine for Western leaders that is precisely...

The title of this week's bookend has sort of a double meaning. In part, of course, it makes a mockery of George Rape Rape Martin's long-promised and never-delivered 6th book in his A Song of Ice and...

The past week has been an exercise in watching really stupid people doing really stupid things and winning really stupid prizes as a result. We are watching the literal self-imposed disembowelment...

This week has unquestionably been a dark one for any of us who had any faith left in the rule of law and in basic human respect for life and liberty. On Monday, the Praetorian Guard of the...