Bowalley Road

A Sun-Hardened Road To Victory: The point of maximum danger will come if/when a day arrives when the Russian forces in Ukraine lose all off...

Casus Belli: The bodies in the street, the terrible revelations of rape and torture: these only make matters worse. Our instinctive respons...

Be Careful What You Wish For: Putin has conjured into being the very strategic nightmare he spent the last 20 years attempting to forestall....

Out Of Patience: Putin’s weary anger said it all. The Ukraine and Russia are one. The West cannot have her. If NATO is determined to fight,...

Unchained: It is certainly fine sport, this high-stakes game of bear-baiting. Ukraine’s dog goes in first, hackles raised, teeth bared. Clo...

Tomorrow Might Not Be Another Day: The poster which swept the pre-Internet world in the anti-nuclear 80s. Those born in the post-Cold W...

"We Nailed It!" New Zealand's representative to the United Nations, Jim McClay, takes a moment as his country's elect...

 I FOUND THIS little gem on Cameron Slater's Whaleoil blogsite (yes, yes, I know, but it's actually a really interesting plac...

Coup D'état By Crowd: With the appeal to naked force no longer acceptable in a post-Cold War world, the United States and its allies...

Killing Fields:  The tragedy of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 is amplified by the Western news medias' refusal to either contextual...

Helpful Hint: Nobody reading my own newspaper columns has ever had to waste any time working out from which side of the political divide...

All The King's Men: Redcoats await the onslaught of Bonnie Prince Charlie's clansmen, 1745. The future of Scotland has never bee...

Same Scene, Different Flag: No, it's not Kiev's Independence Square. This "revolutionary" crowd gathered in the Georgi...