TetleysTLDR Blog #Russia

15th Sep 25: The back catalogue. Catch up on the blogs you've missed. It's all free and I don't want you to buy me a coffee.

13th Sep 25:Sleaze pays: Boris flogged NHS data to Palantir, lobbied Saudi despots, & still grabs £115k from taxpayers. Stop the gravy train: sign the petition

17th August 25: As Voltaire said, "God is on the side of the big battalions", but Ukrianian poet Taras Shevchenko said “Fight, and you will overcome, for God is with the truth, not with force.” One will be proven wrong, and unlike Voltaire, Shevchenko has a dog in the race

23rd June 25: Putin is apoplectic with rage that Europe has starred using Kaliningrad's original name. If only the Germans had a word for 'schadenfreude'

15th June 25: Israel has started another war and is in the process of dragging the west into it. We need to ask if we are on the right side of history here.

2nd June 25: Today Kier Starmer announced that he would be raising our defence spending to 3% of GDP. Given the current global situation, is this anywhere near enough?