All Hail Tsar Putin!

[TheDecameron]

To celebrate The Games, the Tsar will release some convicts early-

The vile blasphemers known as Pussy Riot,
The English Hooligans called Greenpeace,
Sir Elton John ( he hasn't been apprehended yet).

Worldwide, the authoritarian Right is in the ascendant..and in the strangest of places.

 

[stevec67]

Indeed. I was very impressed at the German PM announcing they wouldn't be at the winter games in Russia. Bloody hell, a politico with balls. Please can we have one of them? Ah, no we can't. We get a spineless piece of shit who can't acknowledge that he was wrong over NM in the 80s.

 

[DaveKen]

Indeed. We get a spineless piece of shit who can't acknowledge that he was wrong over NM in the 80s.

Ours is a privately educated rich boy politician with a background only in PR. Which amongst those attributes has given him the background to recognise and acknowledge when he is wrong?
Pretty good at deflecting the spotlight when it is brought up for discussion though, that's where his experience comes into play .
Dave.