Archive - Tobias Stone

There’s a reason why Conservative prime ministers are so bad

The Conservative's leadership election process is to political thinking what the Habsburg’s marriage policy was to genetics

Oct 16, 2022 •

September 2022

Britain’s Unelected Government

By pursuing radical new policies, Liz Truss is adopting a manifesto for which she does not have an electoral mandate.

Sep 27, 2022 •

July 2022

Why we urgently need to call Russia Fascist and Russia’s war Genocide

Words matter. Just as calling Covid19 a Pandemic defined our response to it, we need to call Russia's war in Ukraine a fascist genocide to frame our…

Jul 30, 2022 •

June 2022

The British unions are about to fall into a trap

The RMT Union is calling a rail strike in the UK. This risks creating a battle with the government that could help them win the next election.

Jun 21, 2022 •

May 2022

Putin shows us why the Queen matters

We ask the monarch to give up any freedom over her future in order to protect our democracy and we repay her with a relatively comfy life. Seems like a…

May 30, 2022 •

The British government has hit its lowest point with Partygate

While people were saying goodbye to dying relatives on Facetime, Number 10 was running like a frat house.

May 25, 2022 •

How Democracy Dies

We cannot take democracy for granted; those of us living in democracies are enjoying a rare moment of freedom in human history.

May 4, 2022 •

April 2022

What if Russia doesn't lose...

The war is at a turning point from where it could turn into a dreadful, protracted conflict that we may not be prepared for.

Apr 21, 2022 •

How Putin has rebranded Ukraine

Ukraine is now a global superstar, and President Zelensky is world famous. Neither will disappear in the fog of Putin’s war.

Apr 12, 2022 •

Why Putin is lying to everyone and everyone is lying to Putin — what we can learn from the Mitrokhin Archive

It looks clear that Putin invaded Ukraine based on very poor intelligence about the situation in Ukraine, and equally poor reports about the quality of…

Apr 4, 2022 •

March 2022

What to read from the last week about Russia’s war in Ukraine

Here is what I read over the last week, and what happened, along with some of the better memes I saw.

Mar 6, 2022 •

Putin has destroyed Russia for future generations

Germans have spent the last 80 years apologising for what their predecessors did. Putin is cursing Russians with that same burden.

Mar 6, 2022 •

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