12 January 2017 A Diplomatic Dance When the music stops. by Neil Tidmarsh This week has seen further rounds of the game of musical chairs played by ambassadors and other diplomatic staff around the world recently. The thirty-five Russian diplomats expelled from the USA for “acting in a manner inconsistent with their diplomatic status” (i.e.… Continue reading Issue 87: 2017 01 12: Neil Tidmarsh A Diplomatic Dance
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Issue 84: 2016 12 15: Updateski (Chin Chin)
15 December 2016 Updateski SMEOD strikes at the West. By Chin Chin Down at the Quai d’Orsay, the successors to Maigret are lighting their pipes. “Mais pourquoi?” they ask themselves. MI5 have told them that a cybercrime is being planned but it seems so senseless that it is impossible to build up a picture of… Continue reading Issue 84: 2016 12 15: Updateski (Chin Chin)
Issue 75:2016 10 13:Week In Brief UK
13 October 2016 Week In Brief: UK Government politics BREXIT TERMS: A cross party group of MPs including Nick Clegg, Ed Miliband, Shadow Brexit Secretary Sir Keir Starmer, Nicky Morgan and Anne Soubry is pressing for Parliamentary scrutiny of the Brexit terms. This would be a practical problem for the government who are anxious to… Continue reading Issue 75:2016 10 13:Week In Brief UK
Issue 45:2016 03 17:A Lenten Change of Heart in the Kremlin (Neil Tidmarsh)
17 March 2016 A Lenten Change of Heart in the Kremlin Does Putin read Shaw Sheet? by Neil Tidmarsh Remember the piece in Shaw Sheet four weeks ago called ‘Maskivrovka’? It concluded by saying; “Perhaps someone ought to tell the Russian leadership that … Lent is now upon us, and Lent is the season for… Continue reading Issue 45:2016 03 17:A Lenten Change of Heart in the Kremlin (Neil Tidmarsh)
Issue 30:2015 11 26: Serious Consequences
26 November 2015 Serious Consequences President Putin reaches for the Paracetamol. Again. By Neil Tidmarsh President Putin has promised that there will be “serious consequences” to the shooting down of the Russian Sukhoi Su-42 fighter jet by Turkish F-16 jets yesterday. While reactions to the event are likely to be rapid – this article may… Continue reading Issue 30:2015 11 26: Serious Consequences
ISSUE 18: 2015 09 03: To Russia with Love
3 September 2015 To Russia, with Love by Neil Tidmarsh This week, Vitaly Milanov has been making headlines again. Mr Milanov is the St Petersburg city councillor, member of Mr Putin’s ruling United Russia party and Orthodox Christian activist whose “anti-gay propaganda law”, forbidding the promotion of gay and lesbian lifestyles to minors, was… Continue reading ISSUE 18: 2015 09 03: To Russia with Love
Issue 2: 2015 05 14:Snubbing Putin; should the British Lion have accepted the invitation to the Russian Bear’s party after all?
14 May 2015 Snubbing Putin; should the British Lion have accepted the invitation to the Russian Bear’s party after all? by Neil Tidmarsh Last Saturday, the allies who defeated Nazi Germany in 1945 celebrated the seventieth anniversary of their victory. The celebrations were inevitably sober and tinged with sadness, given the high price of… Continue reading Issue 2: 2015 05 14:Snubbing Putin; should the British Lion have accepted the invitation to the Russian Bear’s party after all?
