Why are BBC and Guardian calling them ‘sham’ or ‘fake’ elections, with those quote marks? They are fake, sham, and illegal.
“Fake elections” is a quotation from a Ukrainian government statement.
Seems like I should have paid more attention! Thanks, that’s good to hear.
‘Many taking part in early polling have been asked to vote in the presence of armed Russian soldiers’
That’s basically every high ranking Trumpist’s favourite erotic dream.
Poor Marina Hyde can hardly make jokes any more. Her pieces recently have mainly been, ‘Just look at this shit! Jesus fucking Christ! What next?’ Which is a shame, because she is screamingly funny, but, well, just look at this shit.
About fucking time!
Blofeldian levels of arrogance and pet love, there.
Yep - I’ve noticed the same in her past 2 or 3 columns. It’s like she realises there is nothing left to mock because everything’s so shit - and things are just not a topic for humour any more. But her writing is as brilliant as ever, of course.
You can tell the poles opened up their history books and decided to adopt an ‘fuck around and find out’ mindset when it comes to Russia
Preston with a nice summary
