THE LIES OF PUTIN’S USEFUL IDIOTS WILL COST US DEAR

WITH oil prices spiking at more than $100 a barrel, Putin is raking in over $700 million a day. No wonder his government invested so much time, money and effort campaigning against alternatives to Russian oil – including, in Britain, fracking. In 2016, Russia Today – the Kremlinbacked news channel frequented by George Galloway and Alex Salmond – was several times investigated by regulator Ofcom, in one case for calling frackers ‘the moral equivalent of paedophiles’. If we hadn’t swallowed the lies of Putin’s many useful idiots, perhaps the taxpayer wouldn’t now unwittingly be funding a brutal war.