Friday, 05 September 2008
The Times
In Russia this week they had the Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, boasting about shooting a tiger. In the US they found themselves a prospective vice-president who has most of a grizzly bear strewn across her sofa, including the head. In Britain we were wringing our hands because some members of our Armed Forces, the most iconic in the world, will occasionally get bits of an already dead Canadian bear and balance it on their heads. "Britain!" as Tom Baker used to say. "Britain! Britain! Britain!" Could this happen anywhere else? Would another nation even begin to care? War in Iraq, 3,000 troops...
 Russian President Vladimir Putin leaves the hall after a news conference in the Kremlin in Moscow,Thursday, Feb. 1, 2007. President Vladimir Putin, in his annual marathon news conference, portrayed Russia as economically robust, a victim of unfair suspic
photo: AP /Alexander Zemlianichenko


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