The subject of this blog is British politics, not Russian. So far as the latter is concerned, “I know nothing.”  But, when I turn the Radio on and I hear a former British ambassador to Russia saying that the regime has undoubtedly been responsible for intimidation including physical attack, I am within scope to question the links between Johnson’s Tory party and members of the President’s circle.

Today legal action has been instigated by some MPs to sue Johnson unless he orders an investigation into Russian meddling in UK elections.   I leave it to readers to ponder his reasons for refusing to do so; and will simply comment that things have reached a pretty pass when the loyalty of the British Prime Minister to the process of British democracy is open to doubt.