Tag Archives: Putin

The Letters of Last Resort

Posted on March 10, 2022 by Stephen Liddell

Following on my last post on Surviving a Nuclear War, it’s important to remember that just because Russia launches a Nuclear Missile, it doesn’t necessarily mean we are all doomed. If nothing else we have seen just how inept aspects … Continue reading →

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How to survive a nuclear war

Posted on March 8, 2022 by Stephen Liddell

It’s hard to escape the news about crazy dictator Putin threatening the world with nuclear war; its something many of us alive at least up to about 1990 will remember was always a chance occurrence but the old style communists … Continue reading →

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Coronavirus Diary 86: Excluded, invaded but undefeated

Posted on March 1, 2022 by Stephen Liddell

This is Sam (not his real name) and he is 10 years old. Sam is a huge Sherlock fan and yesterday I did a hastily arranged Sherlock Walking Tour for him and his mother from Ukraine. This is my first … Continue reading →

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Why Ukraine matters

Posted on February 24, 2022 by Stephen Liddell

I’m frequently staggered though not surprised as just how inept, short-sighted and self-serving the politicians of this world seem to be. 20 years after Putin destroyed Chechnya whose only crime was to be resource rich and not want to be … Continue reading →

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Looking back at 2018 in cartoons

Posted on December 31, 2018 by Stephen Liddell

It’s tradition at the end of a year to look back at the events that we’ve lived through and I thought this year that I would do so with the use of political cartoons. It’s amongst the finest of British … Continue reading →

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200 years after Waterloo… the Napoleon small man syndrome!

Posted on June 18, 2015 by Stephen Liddell

Two hundred years today the Battle of Waterloo was fought in Belgium which saw Napoleon defeated in battle by the Duke of Wellington and other allies from across Europe.  It gave Europe almost a century of peace, incidentally 99 years … Continue reading →

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Is Putin like Hitler?

Posted on May 24, 2014 by Stephen Liddell

It’s the question that everyone has been talking about recently.  It’s possibly what even more people have been thinking to themselves. Is Putin acting like Hitler? Putin has on more than one occasion said the fall of the Soviet Union … Continue reading →

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Ukraine, Putin and the West – What you need to know

Posted on February 20, 2014 by Stephen Liddell

It’s not often I write political pieces, but the scenes on the television news coming out of Kiev are terrible.  Not so long ago, Kiev hosted international football tournaments and was fast becoming a city-break destination for western Europeans rather … Continue reading →

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