Whoever replaces Boris Johnson as Prime Minister must not falter from his course until Putin is vanquished
Breaking Vlad
IT is easy to feel paralysing despair at the daily horrors inflicted on Ukraine’s people.
That has been especially true in the past week, with a nation’s suffering given a new face in Lisa Dmitrieva, the four-year-old girl killed by Vladimir Putin’s missiles, and the death in captivity of Brit Paul Urey.
But amid the heartbreak there is another narrative that offers hope.
In less than five months, Putin has seen a third of his army’s firepower wiped out, thanks to Ukraine’s valiant defenders.
His territorial gains have been humiliatingly meagre, with President Zelensky’s troops increasingly confident even those losses can be recovered.
Sanctions are slowly but surely choking the lifeblood from Russia’s pariah economy, and Putin’s wider strategic aims have backfired, with Finland and Norway joining a beefed-up Nato.
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For all the criticisms of Boris Johnson, his robust support of Ukraine is undoubtedly paying dividends.
Whoever replaces him as Prime Minister must not falter or deviate from the course he has set, until Putin is vanquished.
Bridget too far
WHILE the Tory leadership battle may at times not be politics at its most edifying, the importance of what is at stake is brought sharply into focus almost any time a Labour opponent opens their mouth.
Take Shadow Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson, who yesterday took to the airwaves to attack all the Conservative candidates’ tax pledges, loftily saying: “When we put forward any policy, we’ll be clear about how we fund it.”
Easy to say when your party isn’t putting forward any policies, Bridget.
Her leader Sir Keir Starmer has been in charge of the party for over two years now and he and his team still have nothing to offer beyond kneejerk attacks on anything the Tories say or do.
And when it comes to vision or workable alternatives? Tumbleweed.
Big Sibling
WHAT is it with academia’s puritanical obsession with censoring our language?
The latest words deemed triggering by woke nutters at the University of Manchester include “brother”, “sister”, “mother”, “father”, “husband” and “wife”.
All of which must make family visits to campus a confusing affair.
One of the “inclusive” alternatives the uni recommends is “sibling”. All well and good, except that nine times out of ten, the follow-up question will naturally be: “Is that a brother or sister?”
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Not only is this erasing of useful words in favour of suffocating blandness utterly pointless, it is also sinister.
If these blithering busybodies did something vaguely educational such as reading George Orwell’s classic Nineteen Eighty-Four, they might realise why.