This has been quite a week for warmongers. Moscow has been in flames and I suspect quite a lot of people have been muttering ‘serve them right!’ And two British oldsters, proudly sailing in the Nelson tradition, have pluckily confronted a sinister Russian warship in the English Channel. Surely it is time for war against Russia?
Or perhaps not. I’ll come to that. Yet if I suggest that things are not that bad, or that calls for war are unwise, I am invariably attacked by upstanding patriots who accuse me of being in Kremlin pay, or perhaps of having been hired
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