I’ve been watching a brilliant documentary on BBC2, The Zelensky Story. If you’ve not seen it, I recommend you search it out on iPlayer. Apart from anything else, the archive footage of his early years is fascinating. I hadn’t fully appreciated just how huge a star the proudly Jewish Volodymyr Zelensky was in Ukraine when he ran for the presidency – think Peter Kay, Ant and Dec and Ricky Gervais rolled into one.
If Ukraine must be allowed to fight, why isn’t Israel?
Ukraine is a vital strategic interest for the West. So, too, is Israel. But while we are rightly keen to give Ukraine the tools to do the job for us, we punish Israel for daring to fight Islamists