The evidence for my “fraternal bond” with the Russian President is that I once attended a Christian conference at Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow. As the now disgraced Tatler Tory crew tried to push me out of the political debate, they cajoled the Mirror newspaper and Pink News to make false claims that I had been to the Kremlin and attended a Vladimir Putin summit. They were later forced to retract their statements, and what happened to the Tatler Tory crew is now a matter of Westminster legend. All I had done was speak at a Christian conference in a church in Moscow which was organised by an American foundation. I’ve recently done the same thing in Washington, so I’m not looking forward to my godless Christmas card from my new best friends, the Obamas. Yesterday I received a call from Andrew Gilligan, who in his younger years bravely went after the Blair government for the 45 minute claims, pursuing the same line. “Have you ever been to Russia Mr Harris-Quinney?”, I was asked, “because I have read you were there in 2014, and weren’t you recently also on Russian TV suggesting WW3 wouldn’t be in the interests of Russia