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Biden, Navalny and Putin | The Oligarch Kings

Joe Biden In 2021, Biden made us all a brave promise. He said he had personally told Putin, in no uncertain terms, that should Navalny die in prison, there would ‘devastating consequences’ for Russia.  He did, no he really did! Then the other day Navalny did indeed die in prison, all of a sudden, and […]

Is It Too Late For Biden To Bail?

For Biden, this Primary season is turning into a disaster.  The voters are not just simply unimpressed by the left dragging “their” candidate through the courts using the legal process to disqualify Trump rather than beating him in an open challenge, and flocked to his banners.  And they were not more impressed by the offers […]

Return Of The Kings | The Oligarch Kings

America’s Oligarchy Stitching Us Up Yes, indeed and as captions go, portentous moi?  But at least I have caught your attention!  After an extended spell away from my crayons and the keyboard I have been surprised by the number of people from all sorts of places (and some even I didn’t even know), who have […]

Can You Contact A Russian Teacher?

What can any of us do in the face of Putin’s flagrant fascism his total disinterest in human rights? Some like an old friend in Edinburgh who married a Ukrainian girl many years ago is desperately engaged in getting the parents of her friend out to safety. Others like Ray Baxter, a friend who is […]

Ukraine: Today’s Sparta | The Oligarch Kings

The king with half the east at heel is marched from landsof morning;Their fighters drink the rivers up, their shafts benightthe air,And he that stands will die for naught, and home there’sno returning.The Spartans on the sea wet rocks sat down and combedtheir hair. A.E. Housman, Last Poems XXV, The Oracles    As children at […]