By Eamon Dyas The author was a member of the United Kingdom Diplomatic Service between 1999 and 2023. In that capacity he was responsible for the organisation behind the 2013 G8 Summit which took place in Northern Ireland and which was the last occasion Vladimir Putin visited the United Kingdom. Having applied to work at … Continue reading Review of A Misfit in Moscow: How British Diplomacy in Russia Failed 2014-2019, by Ian Proud, self-published, 2023.
There is nothing in the recent history of the US to suggest that it would ever choose peace over primacy. After the dissolution of the USSR in 1989, the US saw an opportunity for advancing its primacy in the world. It took it and, in Europe, began expanding NATO’s borders eastwards towards Russia, despite having agreed not … Continue reading Peace or Primacy—Editorial 2
By Eamon Dyas Modern Ukraine emerged as an independent state from the most multi-national state in history – the Soviet Union. When it did emerge from the Soviet Union, Ukraine itself bore the characteristics of a multinational state in the form of a presence within its borders of Russian, Hungarian, Romanian, and Cossack minorities with … Continue reading Why Ukraine has Failed as a Multinational State
The European Commission’s Failure to Serve Europe’s Energy Needs Eamon Dyas The US marshalled and directed the events of 2014 in Ukraine in order to scotch the prospect of a Russian-friendly Ukrainian government re-emerging. The US did that as part of a strategy to prevent, or at least, impair, the evolving relationship between Europe and … Continue reading Ukraine and Russian energy—Part Four
Eamon Dyas Comments on a BBC article by Alan Little entitled: “Trump has blown up the world order - and left Europe's leaders scrabbling”“The [post 1945] generation grew up in a world that looked, sounded and behaved more like the United States than ever before. And it became the western world's cultural, economic and military … Continue reading Has Trump abandoned Ukraine?
Parliament Notes A lone voice of sanity in the House of Lords House of Lords, Monday 17th March 2025 “My Lords, last Thursday, the noble Lord, Lord Howell, asked the House to take note of the UK’s international position. My purpose today is narrower but more urgent; to ask the Government what their Ukraine policy … Continue reading Lord Skidelsky on the Government’s Ukraine Policy
Pat Walsh Did you know that President Trump is cancelling the New World Order the US proclaimed in the 1990s – starting with the last and most disastrous of its projects, the advance into the Ukraine? President Trump and his revolutionary band (Marco Rubio, Mike Waltz, Steve Witkoff, General Kellogg and Pete Hegseth) have hit … Continue reading Trump cancels the New World Order
Ukraine and the supply of Russian gas to Europe - the European Commission and national sovereignty over energy By Eamon Dyas In the aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union the West became intoxicated by the prospect of Russia’s opening up its natural resources to Western business interests. This was represented at the time as a victory for the policies of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher and it was only fitting thatthe version of capitalism that took the lead in converting Russia to free market economics was the onerepresented by both these … Continue reading Ukraine and the Supply of Russian Gas to Europe
By Eamon Dyas I had meant to continue the previous article (Labour Affairs December 2024) on the attitude of the US to Europe’s relationship with Russian energy. But at the time of writing the newspapers and airways were dominated by the news of the decision by Kiev to end, on 31 December 2024, the long-standing … Continue reading Ukraine and the supply of Russian gas to Europe
In February of this year ‘Labour Affairs’ pointed out that the Labour Party has historically been an imperialist party and continues to be so. Britain no longer has an empire but its political elite feel in their bones that they are heirs to an imperial tradition and need to go on acting as if the … Continue reading Beware the Warmongering Chihuahua—Editorial 2
By Gwydion M. Williams Immigration – the Left’s Suicidal Unrealism Good News from Germany China Now Allows Less Capitalism Snippets Drowning Japanese and Central Europeans Best Ignored? How Ukraine Invented Itself China’s Excellent Science End homelessness and save money Class Issues Immigration – the Left’s Suicidal Unrealism Social justice is never free. And it is unjust … Continue reading Notes on the News
Caitlin Johnstone Europe Prepares For Hot War With Russia, US Readies For Hot War With China Multiple empire managers have made separate public statements around the same time which, taken together, serve as a disturbing reminder of the dark things our rulers have planned for our future. The US Navy chief has unveiled a plan … Continue reading Europe Prepares For Hot War With Russia, US Readies For Hot War With China
Dear Friends,13.5 per cent of the vote in the Brandenburg state elections is a huge success. For the third time in a row, we have not only cleared the five-percent hurdle, but have entered a state parliament with a double-digit result. No other party launch has been so successful: after only a few months, we … Continue reading Newsletter from the Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht, 28th September 2024
Advances in Germany: are there lessons for the left? The new party is growing and winning not only due to its refusal to beat the war drums over Ukraine, but because of its fearless scepticism of liberal orthodoxy from cancel culture to immigration, writes Nick Wright in the Morning Star A day before last Sunday’s … Continue reading Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance
“Can you not find anything negative to say about Putin?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c586OPde_NA Piers Morgan: First of all, your reaction to the election of Vladimir Putin? Jeffrey Sachs. It’s a Russian tradition. He’s a strong leader, the Russians expect a strong leader and we have to deal with a strong leader in Russia. PM The Wall Street Journal recently … Continue reading Piers Morgan interviews Jeffrey Sachs 20 March 2024—Transcript
This is the final part of the interview. Т. Carlson: So he traded more with Russia than with the European Union and Ukraine?V. Putin: Of course. It's not even about the volume of trade, even if it was higher. It's a question of cooperative ties, on which the entire Ukrainian economy was based. Cooperative ties … Continue reading Tucker Carlson interview with Vladimir Putin–Part 2
Questions to the Ministry of Defence House of Commons 20 November 2023 These consecutive questions and answers to the Ministry of Defence cover a variety of topics, as per subheadings below. The questions and the answers show quasi unanimity among Labour and Tories regarding Defence and Foreign Affairs in general; they show also the British appetite … Continue reading The Ministry of Defence
How dissent is managed in a ‘liberal democracy’. Much is made by politicians and political theorists of the need for ‘active citizens’ in a liberal democracy. The education system is supposed to prepare citizens to scrutinise claims, analyse arguments and check sources of information. We can all then ‘hold to account’ those who aspire to … Continue reading Passive Democracy—Editorial
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