Its utter insubstantiality is underscored by Gorbachev's successor, Vladimir Putin, and the current Russian capo's aggressive nuclear modernization program and threats of devastating attacks on Europe.
Yet looking at the neatly-bridled donkeys on the platforms, and listening to them bray, it struck me that really it was too easy to lay all the blame for the straw-like insubstantiality of contemporary British politics at their stable door.