Fresh from his success in being repeatedly banned from Facebook, we're very pleased to welcome Alfie and Fill Your Boots to this hallowed ground.

We hope you'll make him very welcome. The cnut

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The UN Secretary General has today stated that the Cold War is back. "The Cold War is back with a vengeance, but with a difference," he said. "The mechanisms and the safeguards to manage the risks of escalation that existed in the past no longer seem to be present." UN chief says Cold War is back

30 years ago the Cold War was, in some ways, comforting. We knew who the bad guys were, we knew where they were and we knew what they were doing. There was an openness about it. They watched us, we watched them.

These days I don't think we know where the biggest threat lays. Is it Russia? China? North Korea? Any number of Middle East groups or coalitions?