Rule makers and rule takers
Liam Byrne, a Labour MP and member of the foreign affairs select committee, helped to raise the tempo of the war drumbeat recently when he stated: “What we’ve got to …
Fantasising about Putin’s ill health becomes a fascination for western media
Depending on which way you look at it, our domestic media is either currently working on overdrive to churn out anti-Russian propaganda, or it is simply coasting, having dispensed with …
How Netflix got caught out erasing the achievements of Soviet women
The American streaming service and production company, NETFLIX, is facing a $5 million defamation lawsuit over its portrayal of the Georgian champion chess master Nona Gaprindashvili in its drama series …
Origins of Operation Z
Whilst the Russian operation in Ukraine has been presented by corporate media as an ‘unprovoked attack’, the simple fact is that there has been an ongoing conflict in the East …
If you believe “we may be sleepwalking towards a global war” it’s time to wake up
First published 12th Jan 2022 Robert Tombs is a professor emeritus of history at the university of Cambridge and a contributor to mainstream newspapers such as The Telegraph, The Spectator …