The drunken misbehavior of an accident-prone deputy chief whip shares top honors with stories of a European war that will tarnish our continent’s modern history. We can raid the lexicon for expressions of shock, rage and condemnation on this Carlton Club story, because it doesn’t matter. We have to be much more careful about where things are going in Ukraine. I thought my fellow columnist on these pages, the esteemed former foreign secretary (and friend) William Hague, was unusually careless in his column here on Monday, entitled “No Peace Deal for Putin.” Lord Hague risks being – at best – misinterpreted.
If it’s about the weather, he’s right. No such deal is currently visible. But was it
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