London 1940, Kyiv 2026: The Tedious Futility of Terror Bombing
The air raid siren in Kyiv doesn’t sound like the apocalypse anymore; it sounds like a faulty car alarm your neighbour refuses to fix. Dropping…
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Air Raids and Italian Bitters: The Stubborn Madness of Kyiv’s Micro-Pub King
If you spend enough time dodging shrapnel in Kyiv, you quickly realise survival isn’t just about sandbags—it’s about having a decent place to get a…
The Amazon of War: Why Ukraine is Setting Fire to Wildberries
Why is Ukraine using suicide drones to burn down Russia’s version of Amazon? A quick look at the Wildberries marketplace reveals the answer: it’s no…
A Slight Delay Due to Ballistic Missiles: The Reality of Ukrainian Railways
In Britain, hot weather is enough to cripple the network for a fortnight. In Ukraine, the state railway takes 41 missile strikes in five days,…
Air Raids and Acorns: The Peculiar Priorities of Wartime Kyiv
It takes a special kind of bloody-mindedness to dodge ballistic missiles and still pick a fight over local landscaping. But as Kyiv’s city council is…
Schrödinger’s Nazi: How Fascist Ukraine is Too Gay for Moscow
You literally cannot be a hyper-conservative, traditionalist fascist and a radically woke foot soldier for Western degeneracy at the same time. Even the most versatile…
The Price of Words: The Budapest Memorandum and the ‘Proxy War’ Narrative
London politicians are playing word games again. Calling Ukraine’s defense a “NATO proxy war” isn’t just bad politics – it erases history. Let’s talk about…
Targeting the Syllabus: A Million Books Burned in a Single Kyiv Night
A Russian ballistic missile strike on a Kyiv printing house reduced nearly a million books to ash and pulp in a single night. But if…
The Bureaucrat’s War: Keir Starmer’s Final Departure
While Keir Starmer leaves Downing Street amid domestic political collapse, his final visit to Kyiv reveals a vastly different legacy: the pragmatic leader who secured…
Cardboard and Crossfire: Kyiv’s Friendly Fire in the Corridors of Power
When President Volodymyr Zelenskyy abruptly dismissed Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov on July 15, he achieved what Russian propaganda could not: driving thousands of demonstrators into…