Like most people watching the new Ukrainian interim government shift to a war footing, I hope there is still time for world diplomacy to help. But like everyone tonight, I don’t know what new aggression tomorrow will bring. I do know, however, that I will learn far more about the crisis and its background from Steve and Ihor in person, and I promise to blog again on Ukraine after my return from Oxford.
A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep – Salman Rushdie