torpedo the ark

Image based on the famous recruitment poster  feat. Lord Kitchener, by Alfred Leete (1914)     I.    I trust that readers recognise that I a...

"I know that for me, the war is wrong.  I know that, if the [Russians] wanted my little house,  I would rather give it them than fight ...

Volodymyr Zelenskyy (SA/2022) Based on his official presidential portrait (2019)   The problem of the actor-politician has long concerned me...

  Russian tank entering eastern Ukraine (24-02-22) Photo by Nanna Heitmann / Magnum Photos     Well, if nothing else it reminds us that vio...

Ben Carson by Gage Skidmore (2015) Donald Trump is clearly not stupid: ignorant, perhaps, but he's mostly just a nasty piece of...

Russia, December 1917: the newly established revolutionary government repudiates all Tsarist laws against homosexuality; the Bolshe...

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina  Photo: Reuters / Ilya Naymushin (2013) Obviously the early release from prison of Puss...