I can hear Putin chuckling...

I don't care what you say, George Orwell did not write 1984.

Marr makes him uncomfortable for a few seconds - and then the whole thing is forgotten.

These 'think tank researchers' are corporate prostitutes.

He eventually 'settled' with HMRC, paying them £5 million for a careless oversight. You or I would have gone to prison.

The Austrian corporal is in a flap.

'Facts are meaningless. You can prove anything that's even remotely true with facts.' H Simpson.

"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

Spot on.

The only thing that constrains him is 'his own morality'.
That is the absolute definition of a fascist tyrant.

Bloodshed? Soldiers and civilians were killed by US forces - but it's largely unreported.

Yes, I suppose convicted sex offenders are 'distasteful'.

I got 'zip-line'
Can someone give me a push?

Excellent

I remember dancing to this at family parties with thumbs in waistband - aunts and uncles pissed as newts. Fabulous.