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So let me get this right. The Eurovision song contest, one of the frothiest and least significant of competitions around the world, has ac...

Easter Sunday. For Christians at least, a good day, pretty much the best.  On the other hand, this year it also happens to be Hitler’s bir...

I’ve been taken to task by a friend for not backing the obvious will of the people in Crimea, for reintegration with mother Russia. That wi...

Simply comparing a political opponent to Hitler is a terribly cheap ploy. It’s generally horribly unfair, not to say misleading. However, th...

It’s agonising to watch the suffering of Ukraine today. And I feel it all the more strongly because of the work I was doing only fifteen mon...