Parents know about the paradox of power, now being demonstrated mercilessly by Vladimir Putin. I am thinking of the fact that a truculent toddler, while notionally far weaker than a grown-up, will typically win in the battle of ‘eat your vegetables’. The
Ever since the final days of the Second World War, when mushroom clouds rose above the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, mankind has lived in the shadow of nuclear war. As a schoolboy in the 1980s, I vividly remember the paranoia
What would you take? Imagine the moment – hearing the sound of sirens, the crump of weapons, the crash of bombs – when you know you must flee from your beloved home to any place of safety. You grab a bag or
What is happening in Europe today is the most critical military situation that I have seen in my lifetime. Make no mistake: Vladimir Putin’s placement of Russia’s strategic nuclear deterrent forces on alert is tantamount to threatening the use of nuclear weapons.
TOM TUGENDHAT: Russia Today TV channel is nothing but poison, smears and anti-British propaganda, and should have been banned by Ofcom By Tom Tugendhat For The Mail On Sunday Published: 17:02 EST, 26 February 2022 | Updated: 17:35 EST, 26 February 2022
Snake Island is an outcrop of rock, about half a mile square, situated on the Danube Delta off the Ukrainian coast. On Wednesday morning, as Vladimir Putin’s forces began their murderous assault, a Russian guided-missile cruiser and patrol boat appeared off the
So they finally got their war. But what are they going to do now? This is the most avoidable, needless conflict in modern history. It was nurtured and hatched in the small minds of foolish men. There was a compromise available, but because
A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of war. After months of build-up, following a very 1930’s playbook -the inevitable has happened. Hysteria against the enemy screams from state media. Russian troops amass under the guise of ‘exercises. Stage managed false
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Western world entered a strange interlude in which we forgot about the realities of great power politics. In a way, 79-year-old President Joe Biden personifies that forgetfulness. During the 1990s, the West turned a
For three-and-a-half centuries, elite customers, from monarchs downwards, have conducted their financial affairs behind its imposing columned facade. Britain’s oldest bank, Child & Co – based at 1 Fleet Street in central London since 1673 – is even said to have inspired Charles