Alexander Rodnyansky has morphed from obscure UK academic to economic advisor to Ukraine’s president. As he explained to Spectator UK, they are envisioning modernization, market freedoms and shedding institutional remnants of the country’s Soviet past. Standing in the way: Vladimir Putin, whose lust for conquest appears to include destroying Ukraine and triggering global food shortages.

A Spite That Knows No Bounds
Gratingly awful global scold Greta Thunberg’s latest stunt is to turn on her own motherland. Sweden has been very good to her, but the former social-democratic paradise’s mugging by the realities of uncontrolled immigration do not sit well with the keffiyeh-clad rabblerouser. “For years, Sweden took more asylum seekers per capita than any other country in Europe,” writes Fredrik Karrholm in The Spectator. “Now asylum numbers have fallen to their lowest level since 1985.”


