Is Putin unfairly maligned?

On Russia by George Christensen

Nation First airs a Russian Orthodox priest's thoughts on Russia being the last Christian stronghold against Western decay

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He is if you ask former Australian federal politician, George Christensen, and the author of this blog article, Michael Wood, a Russian Orthodox priest.

Speaking of Putin, Wood writes:

“we can at the very least see that Putin is a man with a committed personal faith.” This drives him to build Russia as a strong Christian nation, protected from the moral degeneracy of the west. 

A blunt assessment of Putin's relationship with the Russian Orthodox Church is that he has it wrapped around his little finger. Like many a politician before him, far from being a sincere Christian believer, Putin uses Christianity as a political prop. Father Wood is too deceived to see through Putin's façade. As for corruption, by all means accuse the President of Ukraine of corruption and demagoguery, but don't overlook Putin's.

Scooped

A newspaper journalist manages to correctly spell “its” and misspell “it’s” in the same block of text. Such are the perils of the 24 hour news cycle.

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Auschwitz and the Holocaust, 80 years later

The world is about to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, where 1 million people were killed. May the world never forget. 

How about that, huh?

Regardless of your politics, you would have to be cold hearted to fail to be even slightly moved by this video of American Vice President JD Vance's first visit to the Oval Office. A guy with his dysfunctional upbringing, candidly described in his best selling memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, must have scarcely imagined that he would eventually rise to this position. 

Polarisation

It's too cold to go out

This is what millions of Brits were doing on Christmas Day back in 1984, if they had some spare time after catching up with loved ones, going to church, partaking of a Christmas meal, and the like. The idea of a man wearing a dress being comedy fodder might be considered offensive to the venerable BBC these days. 

Defying gravity

The teaser trailer for the new Superman movie dropped overnight. My hopes for this are modest. Firstly, to be commercially successful enough to give Marvel Studios a run for its money, and secondly, to do justice to the character.