Sunday round up

Putinism, mafia honour codes, and the incurable glibness of the English upper-middle class

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Greetings,

and welcome to new subscribers — last week’s piece on Putin’s fascistic mindset brought hundreds more.

Lawrence Freedman, emeritus professor of war studies at King’s College, London included it in a wider article on whether President Macron’s hopes of a settlement that addressed Russia’s security interests could ever be met.

Freedman’s main co…