Quarterly Newsletter - Spring 2022
Nearly two months ago Russia began its invasion of Ukraine, and the war is still ongoing. And what a horrific war it turned out to be!We see daily pictures of destruction on a massive scale. Russia has been bombarding residential areas in various cities, doing so in clear breach of the Geneva Convention. In addition, horrendous atrocities have been committed, as evidenced by over 500 execu...read more
Quarterly Newsletter - Winter 2022
Ukraine It has long been known that Vladimir Putin wishes to rebuild Russia into the equivalent of the former USSR by trying to destabilise the West (particularly the US and Europe). He does not want to recreate a superstate, but he wants influence and control over the previous Soviet Republics, particularly those abutting Russia’s border towards the West.In that he has been quite successful, la...read more
Quarterly Newsletter - Autumn 2021
When we penned our Summer Newsletter in mid-July, we knew that a withdrawal of the American military and the rest of NATO forces from Afghanistan was in the offing. It was generally accepted that the baton would be handed over to the Afghan army, and based on the Doha Agreement, signed by the then US president Trump and the Taliban leadership at the end of February 2020, the dialog between t...read more
Quarterly Newsletter - Summer 2021
COVID-19As this is written on the so-called “freedom day” – a bit of a misnomer, methinks! – we find it increasingly difficult to understand what our government is trying to achieve. There are so many mixed messages coming from the PM himself, his Cabinet colleagues, his backbenchers, politicians from different parties and, of course, the medical experts.Pandemic has now become ‘pingdemic’, with m...read more
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