Not that this will make much of a difference to the screeching fanatics on the far left and right, but we can now safely say that Russia was responsible for the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. Reported the Guardian:  The international chemical ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Apr 12, 2018

Having satirized British politics (The Thick of It/In the Loop) and American politics (the multiple Emmy-award-winning Veep), Armando Iannucci has now brought his hammer - and sickle - down on Mother Russia in The Death of Stalin, a farce that not only lives up to his previous ...read more

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Dec 20, 2018

Bloomberg News published a fascinating insight today into the bizarre and apparently deteriorating relationship between Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May. The story highlights how impossible it is for foreign nations to deal with the White House under the new ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Jan 24, 2018

As a born and bred Londoner, this makes me immensely proud. From the Evening Standard:  The Royal Borough of Greenwich has "barred" Donald Trump after councillors called for his visit to the UK to be abandoned. Earlier this week, America's ambassador in London signalled that Mr ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Dec 15, 2017

“What I use in the battle for the mind
                                                             Hit it hard like it supposed
                                                                          Pulling no blows to the nose” ...read more

• By Frederic Poag
  Nov 9, 2018

Just when you thought Donald Trump couldn't get any worse, any viler or any more toxic, the President of the United States retweets a fascist's anti-Muslim video to his 43.5 million followers. The president retweeted not one, but three anti-Muslim videos posted by the deputy ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 29, 2017