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Farage vs Clegg: blood, sweat and statistics
Nigel Farage accused Nick Clegg of using tired old statistics. Clegg accused Farage of making them up. But with a chance to fish for Labour and Tory votes, perhaps both men were winners?
Clegg/Farage round two is almost upon us. Cut through the spin with FactCheck’s guide to the truth about Europe and immigration.
Nigel Farage accused Nick Clegg of using tired old statistics. Clegg accused Farage of making them up. But with a chance to fish for Labour and Tory votes, perhaps both men were winners?
The truth is the bulk of EU countries didn’t have the appetite to risk their own economic well-being in punishing Russia. And we are still in phase two of a three phase process.
Sergei Lavrov says the military fatigues who have taken over Ukrainian military bases in Crimea are not Russian soldiers. One colonel tells me: “It’s a lie.”
A thick fog has descended on Kiev and its politics, as Ukraine waits to see what Vladimir Putin will do next.
No.10 have made a mistake in its slightly gushing briefing about the rapport between Angela Merkel and David Cameron. They’re dealing with a cool-headed rationalist.
In Ukraine’s west, the outlook is towards Europe and the EU; in the east, allegiances are to Moscow. Can these two visions find common ground?
There is one question burning on everyone’s lips: where is President Viktor Yanukovych? Lindsey Hilsum, international editor, brings this live from Ukraine.
The centre of Kiev has been turned into a shrine for the martyrs of the revolution, and Maidan looks and smells like a flower show on the barricades.
These are the titushki, uneducated thugs, many of them petty criminals, who have disrupted Ukraine’s anti-government demonstrations.
President Yanukovych flees Kiev allowing protesters to take over and leaving his presidential compound – complete with private zoo – open to the people.
Much has been made of the divisions in Ukraine, though I am yet to meet a Ukrainian who wants a divide. The question now is whether popular anger about corruption can pull people back together.
A compromise has been reached between Ukraine’s government, opposition leaders and EU politicians – but that is a far cry from a deal being accepted by the protesters in Kiev’s Independence Square.
The Sochi Games are a vanity project for the country’s leader – and Vladimir Putin, convinced this is Russia’s return to the world stage, is unconcerned by the outrage over his anti-gay policies.
The EU flag may hang listlessly outside buildings in Europe. But anti-government protesters in Ukraine carry it to the frontline like a medieval standard.