KYIV “SHOULD HAVE ALL of it by Christmas. That’s Christmas 2350 at the current rate of advance.” Ivan Demisovych spent his youth fighting in Stalingrad and his middle age in a Gulag. He knows Russia, he knows Russians. He lives in a small cabin in the Siberian forests that dominate Asiatic Russia. He has no…

SYDNEY IF YOU LOG on to The Sydney Morning Herald website, the paper has a sad story of hubris and suicide from The Hamptons on Long Island, New York. The story is not important. Access to it is. The Sydney Morning Herald wants you to pay for access. Click on to The New York Times…

WASHINGTON DC “THESE DAYS, IMAGE is absolutely everything; substance counts for almost nothing. And you know why? Because substantively these candidates have very little separating them.” The words of long-time US political analyst Owen Ballut, who has been covering American Presidential elections since 1948. “Abortion, guns and medical care are the divides but only really…

MOSCOW WITH THE UKRAINIAN ADVANCE towards Kursk continuing apace, Western commentators speculate furiously on how long it will take the Ukrainians to conquer Russia. “The first 30km are always the hardest,” says Brigadier Gerard Escargot, late of Her Majesty’s 115th Mounting Root, “after that, as long as you keep your eyes on the prize, it…

FROM FRED BARBAROSSA IN UKRAINE RUMOURS OF GERMAN armored vehicles moving towards Kursk in Russia have sent some of the last remaining Teutonic veterans of the Second World War into low earth orbit, it appears. “Zis ist vat I haf been avaiting all mein life,” said Hermann from Paraguay, a former Hauptsturmfuhrer in the Das…

KYIV EDITOR THE BOLD UKRAINIAN offensive towards Kursk, which had military experts scratching their heads, could be a plan to take as much of Russia as Russia has taken of Ukraine, so that when it comes to a peace settlement they can trade it for their own land. “They war in the Donbas has slowed…

KURSK IT WAS THE greatest tank battle of all time. Operation Citadel, launched by Germany in 1943. The target, the Russian city of Kursk. The outcome, Russian victory. After Kursk, defeat in the Second World War was virtually certain for Germany. This week, Ukraine has launched an offensive towards Kursk. The Ukrainians will naturally be…

RIOTS DESK GROUPS OF CATHOLIC and Protestant anti-migrant protesters from Northern Ireland are teaching their English equivalents the finer arts of street demonstrations and riots, using the dark web, according to police. “The Irish, they are masters at rioting, it’s in the blood, isn’t it?” said a senior officer from London’s Metropolitan Police. “Most of…

PR REPORTERS ALLEGATIONS THAT GOOD Morning Britain host Ed Balls was asked to pick up milk and bread on his way home during an interview he did with his wife Home Secretary Yvette Cooper have been dubbed fake news by insiders. A website entitled Edvertorial appeared soon after the interview, claiming that the alleged request…

TOKYO AS THE TOKYO stock market dropped over 12%, across the world investors have been screaming at Kamala Harris to laugh. Recent studies have linked the US Vice President’s laughter to optimism in financial markets. “The markets are all now looking at Ms Harris to save the world from a crash,” says JP Scam, a…