The ugly authoritarianism of Vladimir Putin's Kremlin and Russia's hydrocarbon-fuelled diplomatic bolshiness are now well documented.

ECONOMIST: Russia

As a result, Japanese firms could yet find themselves facing union bolshiness of a kind they have not seen in 50 years.

ECONOMIST: The worm turns

That is true in Scotland generally: for all Mr Salmond's canny bolshiness, popular support for independence has not risen in line with his party's popularity.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot