Ukraine Dispatch 11 | Spanish Defiance in Lisbon
Putin will fail, and even though it will take a long time, his regime WILL collapse, and the Greater Russian People WILL rise up when they realise what he has done, and is doing, in their Name.
16 October 2026 ~ Your Excellency, President Zelenskyy, the free world stands with you, Sir. Do not flinch. Both you and your Sovereign Nation of Ukraine are truly Churchillian. Slava Ukraini.

Ukraine Dispatch 40 | The Ukrainians Were Showing an Unexpected Resilience That Incensed Putin and his Cronies
This Ukraine Dispatch is dedicated to the BBC Journalist Quentin Somerville and his cameranman Darren Conway embedded with the Ukraine Armed Forces and also to Lieutenant Eugene Gromadskyi and to the late Colonel Oleg Gromadskyi and to Mrs Natalia Gromadskyi, Oleg’s Widow and Eugene’s Mother.

Anyhows! In Light of the War in Ukraine (Revised Poetry Edition)
When Anyhows was first published on May 26, 2012, I received that same week a moving letter from a correspondent. He was happy for his letter to appear but to merely refer to his first name and his city : Steve Manchester : A Letter of Encouragement. These two pieces perfectly interlock.





















