Tag: Russia
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From Russia, With Chaos
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been re-reading Peter Pomerantsev’s book Nothing is True and Everything is Possible, each page pushing me towards the same, slightly counterintuitive conclusion: if you want to understand Trump’s America, you need to look to Putin’s Russia. I first read the book when a colleague – a history teacher I’d…
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Woke up, saw it had snowed, grabbed a bungee cord…
Woke up this morning and saw it had snowed again, so grabbed a homemade bungee cord I’d been working on and headed down the local estate: File under ‘Seriously Bloody Crazy’! Happy snow days people.