Mr Miliband’s decision to expel four Russian diplomats has taken us back to the bad old days of the 1960s and 1970s. I read today that Russian planes have been testing out the RAF response, just like old times. Why didn’t Mr Milliband spend more time thinking through possible solutions to the problem of how to bring a suspect to justice? What is he going to do once the Russians retaliate to the diplomat expulsion? These kinds of rows are easy to escalate but difficult to bring to the conclusion we want. The best thing this government could do to give us more leverage is to get on with an energy policy which avoided reliance on Russian gas.

I wonder what other features of the??past this governemnt will want to re create? They seem to like keep old trains on the tracks for as long as possible, and no doubt take their inspiration for regional givernment in England from Cromwell’s Major Generals of the 1650s. They seem to dislike so many successful features of the modern world. They hate flexible transport, condemning the car at every opportunity. They are the new puritans, looking to tax anythingt that people enjoy.

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