Stormy weather

This week: so shockingly it turns out Putin is bad, how storms get their names and the perils of mapping disputed territories.

I need to be careful this week. There are subjects that I either flatter myself I know something about, or on which I can write entertainingly enough that my lack of subject knowledge isn’t really too big of a problem. Foreign policy has never been one of them. I know nothing, I barely know what I think, and when anyone else expresses a view that the wa…