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Western focus on Russian political dead-enders exposes failure to grasp that real change in Moscow will come from system insiders

Former US presidential candidate Senator Mitt Romney was making news again this week, meeting with Russian opposition activist Leonid Volkov, best known for his close association with jailed activist Alexey Navalny. The head-to-head has drawn flak from a range of commenters. Prominent American “Russia-watcher” Kevin Rothrock took to Twitter to …

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‘Seriously shocking failure’: NHS Covid vaccine booking site under review after leaking sensitive medical data, reports say

Using their NHS number or by verifying their identity, vaccine-eligible users can book appointments for their Covid jab. However, it turned out there is currently no safeguard built into the site to protect against a person’s confidential vaccination status being disclosed to anyone with basic personal information about them. This …

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Russia needs liberals in politics, but failure of Navalny movement shows futility of street protests & reliance on foreign backers

Russian liberals should now establish a responsible presence in the political system. This demands replacing revolutionary politics and foreign sponsors with the development of accountable political platforms providing solutions to complex problems. Revolutionary Russia Russia’s turbulent history has largely been defined by revolutionary change. The past millennium has been siloed …

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Woke-ism run amok or long overdue? UK’s apology for failure to honour non-white WWI soldiers triggers ‘structural racism’ debate

Following its own inquiry, the CWGC said on Thursday that “pervasive racism” and “contemporary imperial attitudes” had resulted in hundreds of thousands of soldiers from World War I not being memorialised by name, or at all. In the House of Commons, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace later echoed that sentiment and tendered a …

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Admitting ‘monumental failure’? Obama roasted for saying US achieved ‘all that we can’ in Afghanistan as Biden reveals exit plan

Biden announced on Wednesday that American forces will leave Afghanistan by September. Explaining his decision, he said that he refused to continue the cycle of “extending or expanding” the US military presence in the country, adding that waiting to create “ideal conditions” for a withdrawal was no longer viable. He …

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‘Law is a mess’: UK parliament committee blasts govt over failure to protect ‘right to protest’ after Sarah Everard vigil outrage

The restrictions on gatherings introduced by the government during the pandemic have been “confusing” and ambiguous, the parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights said in a statement on Friday, adding that protests have never been “completely illegal” even during lockdown if held properly. The “confusing” nature of the government regulations …

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