King Boris Kaput

Well Britain's colourful Prime Minister Boris Johnson has resigned.

Boris Johnson - A Colourful Prime Minister

I suppose it was always going to end this way, as his personality was not one to just retire after a quiet premiership.

1938 Revisited

The announcement by President Putin of Russia that he recognised the breakaway Russian backed Ukrainian provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk as separate states, was in one sense, only a confirmation of the facts on the ground ....

Russia Has Recognised The Rebel Regions As States

..... Russia had backed the Russian rebels in those two Ukrainian provinces since 2014, and was never going to allow the Ukrainian forces to recapture the land currently held by the rebels.

All Quiet On The Western Front

I had an email asking if I was 'avoiding Brexit and UK politics', having had so much to say about it until the last 18 months?

 

British Politicians Often Fail In Europe

 

Well the answer is 'Yes', I am avoiding it.

Hollandaise Sauce

With the news that the new French President Francois Hollande's first act was to hot tail to Berlin to try and get the German Chancellor to change her plans for Europe  ..... uncomfortable memories were evoked of other French Presidents and other German Chancellors meetings in the not so distant past.

"You Can Go Left - But I Am Sticking To The Right Path"

If you believe in auguries, then the fact that he had to return back to Paris and get a second plane after his first flight was apparently hit by lightning, doesn't augur well for the success of his mission. Mayhap, like Neville Chamberlain he will return with a bit of paper to flutter in Paris, but probably nothing substantive will change.

Visits To A German Chancellors Don't Always End Well

The French President should perhaps remember that Hollandaise Sauce is always eaten cold, by all German Chancellors.