Charles Moore Charles Moore

What would Thatcher have made of Putin?

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issue 19 February 2022

When Sir Tony Brenton writes a letter to the Times, as he frequently does, it always says at the bottom that he was British ambassador to Moscow. The uninformed reader could be forgiven for thinking the sub-editors have got it back to front and he was actually Russian ambassador to London.

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