In last month’s European Parliament election, eurosceptic and extremist parties won 25 per cent of the popular vote, with the biggest gains chalked up in France, the United Kingdom and Greece. These results were widely, and correctly, interpreted as showing the degree of d

Earlier last month, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that gas giant Gazprom would start demanding payment a month in advance for the supplies that it sells to Ukraine. The British newspaper The Observer published, in response, a striking cartoon showing Putin sitting o