As a blogger, I feel obliged to react whenever something especially noteworthy happens in politics or culture. Having now been blogging for so long, it sort of feels like my job. Yet how can anyone react to the stream of contemptible bullshit which came from Moscow this morning? I didn’t think anyone could spout more intellectually repugnant bullshit than Donald Trump until I heard Putin speak this morning. How anyone can have the arrogance to try to rewrite history so blatantly, trying to place the blame for the illegal war which everyone knows he chose to wage onto others, is beyond me. Thousands of people in Ukraine are dying due to Putin, yet he had the audacity to cast himself as some sort of heroic victim battling against the oppressive, elitist West, and the sheep listening to him just applauded their empty heads off like the embarrassments to human civilisation that they are. How can we, as a global civilisation, put up with such abhorrent spectacles?