2015

Nemtsov killed, Putin wins

Firstly the Putin propagandists are trying to talk down the importance of Nemtsov. As usual they are lying. He had been First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia 17 March 1997 – 28 April […]

More on education

After writing my article What is wrong with UK education. And how to fix it, I have been engaged on social media with some interesting views. Basically the progressives and social […]

Putin’s rise from intelligence officer to President was meteoric. Just 22 months. This was pretty much an FSB coup d’etat against the Russian people and against democracy. It was utterly ruthless. […]

Putin's killed opponents

Since the late 1990s a very long succession of opponents of Vladimir Putin have met violent deaths that were convenient for him. Almost certainly in the hundreds of individuals murdered. […]

The Boris Nemtsov murder

Boris Nemtsov is just the latest of very many Putin opponents who have been killed: Anna Politkovskaya, Galina Starovoitova, Igor Domnikov, Sergey Novikov, Iskandar Khatloni, Sergey Ivanov, Stanislav Markelov, Adam Tepsurgayev, Sergei Yushenkov, […]

Africa coming good?

The countries of Africa, especially the sub Saharan bit, have a terrible history. Many of them were worse off after independence than they had been under their colonial masters. Corruption […]