From Russia with love (sorry!)

It's 26 years since I visited Moscow and I assume it's a very different place to the drab Soviet city I experienced in 1982. (It was so awful that when we left, and the British Airways' pilot announced that we were clear of Soviet airspace, the news was greeted with wild and sustained applause.)

What won't have changed (in spite of global warming) is the extreme cold that grips the place for months on end. It was April when I visited the city, which is a three-hour flight from London, but the severe arctic temperature, especially on our first night when we walked the few hunded yards from our hotel to Red Square, is something I shall never forget.

Anyway, the reason I mention it is that Taking Liberties has reached a little part of Russia that will be forever England. I am talking about The Last Ditch, an excellent blog by ex-pat Tom Paine who ironically (some may feel) writes from Moscow about the "death of liberty in Britain". 

I have added The Last Ditch to our blogroll on The Free Society. Warmly (no pun intended) recommended.

Comments

[Shades]

That ragged cheer was still happening in 1996, but not to the extent I anticipated.

[Tom Paine]

Thanks for the link and good luck with this great new venture.