The Mediaeval Method.

It seems that Russia’s ‘special military operation’ is throwing up an interesting phenomenon – even the mega-rich who step out of line over there are prone to falling out of 6^th floor hospital windows, or being found mysteriously dead along with their families in their Moscow apartments or Spanish villas.

Maybe it’s all totally innocent, but it certainly has a whiff of the Roman or mediaeval or Renaissance Italian about it. Shakespeare would have a whole new fount of juicy material if he were still alive.

And maybe that’s why Mr Putin is ‘too busy’ to attend Gorbachev’s funeral. Maybe funerals are not a safe place for a tyrant to be – too public – because tyrants often get hoist by their own petard eventually. I’m guessing.