Waiting for General Frost
Every morning Moscow scans the 10-day forecast for Kiev, looking for a period of really hard frost. Currently the coldest daytime temperature forecast is -5°C,… Read More »Waiting for General Frost
Frank Hilliard
A War Like No Other
The war in Ukraine has come as a nasty surprise to the soldiers fighting it. None of their expectations have come true and tactics, and… Read More »A War Like No Other
The Madness of Europe
Boris Johnson has visited Volodymyr Zelensky in Kiev and promised more aid in Ukraine’s war with Russia. NATO is bolstering its forces on its Eastern… Read More »The Madness of Europe
Putin is the New Saint George
I wrote last year Russia is the best country in Europe. Now, in battling the American hegemon in Ukraine, Russia is standing up for European… Read More »Putin is the New Saint George
Canada, as a Democracy, is Essentially Finished
Imagine this; a minority party gets the support of a socialist party and gets the parliament to give the executive sweeping powers. Germany, 1933? No, Canada… Read More »Canada, as a Democracy, is Essentially Finished
The Beautiful Peacemakers
One British Woman, an aristocrat, a free thinker, had a shot at ending WWII before it began, Diana Mosley (nee Freeman-Mitford), one of the six… Read More »The Beautiful Peacemakers
The Grand Sophy
This charming woman in her fashionable Regency dress and her basket of flowers looks a little like a flower herself. Perhaps her muscular dog with… Read More »The Grand Sophy
Famous British Defeats of WW II
Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano is credited with writing in his diary, “victory finds a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan.” With that… Read More »Famous British Defeats of WW II
You Can’t Dance
You can’t dance. I know this because I’ve been to enough wedding receptions, socials and bars with dance floors to notice that North Americans don’t know how to dance. They hold their partners and shuffle across the floor, but neither party would know a dance step if it bit them on the ankle.