Tag Archives: Putin

Looking back at 2018 in cartoons

Posted on December 31, 2018 by

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

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

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

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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