The Spectator

Putin vs. Obama: whose side are the American right on?

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Under the shadow of the Crimean situation, Harry Cole travelled to Washington DC to find out what American conservatives really make of Putin. He asked attendees of this month’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPac) who is worse — President Obama, or President Putin?

Aliens

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‘It’s Zok here from the “human abduction team”. Do we have disabled access facilities?’

Outside 2

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‘I do wish you wouldn’t look at the outside world — you know it only upsets you.’

Dec

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‘I’m in for assaulting Ant, but it’s a case of mistaken identity — I thought it was Dec.’

Eurovision 2

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‘There’s only one sanction Putin will respond to – we must throw Russia out of the Eurovision Song Contest immediately.’

The not-so-great escapes

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Escapology This week marked the 70th anniversary of the Great Escape, when 76 Allied servicemen tunnelled out of Stalag Luft III prisoner of war camp in Poland. Fifty of them were executed on recapture. How successful were escape attempts? — At least 483 Allied servicemen escaped German camps. Only 12 reached home turf, including three