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.

Yay Brexit!
Brendan O’Neill in Spiked enthuses that Brexit is superior to just about anything else in the world. “There should be street parties” on the 10th anniversary of the popular vote to withdraw from the EU, he writes. “Let the bells peal for that momentous day when in our millions we said No to globalism.” The continuing surfeit of saboteurs and naysayers among Britain’s “idiot elites”, O’Neill snorts, are gripped by Brexit Derangement Syndrome.


