Why can’t he say a bad thing about Vladimir Putin of Russia? Well, maybe he just likes bad guys like President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines… …or nasty President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey…. He got on just fine with…
Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States of America So what’s it going to be for the President of the USA? We learn something new about his Russian obsessions every day, it seems. Now, of…
An optimistic Wolfiewolfgang in 2008 It was eight years ago today that I started this website – it seems a world away from now as we look to another new year with, mostly, very different faces among the world’s…
I’m mostly quite a cheerful optimistic type of person but, really, looking at the world as we move towards Christmas, what is there to be cheerful and optimistic about? Well, I just planted my spring bulbs; my family is coming…
Looking at Vladimir Putin’s chilly expression, I felt cold too this morning. I had just been looking at the appalling images coming from the destroyed and corpse-filled Donetsk Airport and despaired of the situation in Ukraine which is running…
Dear President Putin, You know as well as everyone else knows. The unspeakable barbarity of that missile attack on a civilian plane, Malaysian Flight MH17 was committed by terrorists (known, for some reason, as separatists) with your armament support. Neither…
Fundamental Principles of Olympism 1. Olympism is a philosophy of life, exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, will and mind. Blending sport with culture and education, Olympism seeks to create a way of life based…
What a guy! Who could it be speeding down the mountain, on the piste? That’s the trouble with the Winter Olympics, you can never see who is doing what because they are all so well wrapped up against the cold.…
WBC heavyweight world champion Vitali Klitschko may have hung up his gloves but as the leader of one of the Ukraine’s main opposition parties, he hasn’t forgotten how to pack a punch. He has shown his courage and his mettle…
Some of us were thrilled the other day to hear the multi-talented and mega-cool Russian prime minister, Vladimir Putin, tickling the ivories at a charity event in St Petersburg. The land that produced some of the greatest of all pianists,…