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Our glorious Ministry of Truth – ever watchful in the fight against enemy propaganda – has decided that Russia Today is showing signs of bias and must therefore be severely admonished. Obviously, everything is tickerty-boo in our mainstream media, so Ofcom has enough time on its hands to do a further twelve investigations into RT wickedness.

Con Coughlin (long known as an MI6 stooge) headlines his piece in today’s Telegraph, ‘The oligarchs are turning on Russia’s new Tsar’. Two (that’s 2) oligarchs have issued statements condemning the invasion, and one of them is Ukrainian, so he would say that. There are estimated to be 35 oligarchs in Russia. Yesterday’s Peter Brookes cartoon featured a gross exaggeration of a story (that turns out to have been complete fiction) about women and children being ‘herded off to prison’:

Another “story” in the Smellynaff announces ‘Vladimir Putin’s commanders will…