Hugh Muir's diary

Dave's very cross with Russia. But that won't stop the Tories and Putin's people being friends• The bone of contention list between Downing Street and the Kremlin goes on a bit. The murder of Alexander Litvinenko; the imprisonment of Pussy Riot; the bolstering of Assad; human rights abuses, various. But you can't just keep ranting at a man like Putin. Lucky, then, that we have Conservative Friends of Russia, the group launched last month in the garden of the Russian ambassador. No oppositi...