Anyone who thinks they understand the Irish Troubles has not a clue what they are talking about, Declan Hayes writes.

It is a tragedy that Europeans will not leave little Russian children alone to play with their dolls and put the smiles of peace and not the tears from war, on the faces of their elders.

Russia is in control of the battlefield but not the media war where NATO’s hired hacks still spin tales of abducted children and civilian massacres.

Though those Chinese students MI5 expels might miss out on Paris 2024, they can look forward to happier and less paranoid meets in Russia, China and allied countries in the years ahead.

NATO’s path to Persia is starting to resemble Hitler’s path to Moscow, a city Napoleon Bonaparte visited once. The path both Hitler and Napoleon trod have their noteworthy points.

The Templers were one of those important but all too often overlooked historical footnotes that are wrongly glossed over.

Though Kant is as undeniably German as the Nord Stream pipeline, Putin (and anyone else anywhere) has a right to quote him morning, noon and night.

Whatever the true number of Russian and Ukrainian military and civilian dead, no glory is due to the slatterns of the BBC, just as no glory was due to the cross dressing crackpot Cirillo.

To those who are killing Russian Orthodox Christians, beating up their priests and ransacking their churches, this is very much a holy war or, to be more precise, a very unholy war.

Although a sporting minnow, Israel certainly punches above its weight when it comes to tying its enemies up in legal knots, Declan Hayes writes.