China is the only real victor in Ukraine
A frightening new autocratic international order is taking shape
Where is the United Nations?
The world has lost its only credible arena for peace
Winner take all
Putin learned post-Cold War warfare from the West
Pandemic panic on the River Plate
Going mano e mano with the malady of Montevideo
Man up, President Xi
Why not flip the script, and let China lead the world out of the climate crisis?
Remembering Colin Powell
Powell’s real legacy was Barack Obama
Inside Ethiopia’s civil wars
Abiy Ahmed has joined the long list of Africa’s “democrats” who became dictators
He brainwashed you
The legacy of communist cult leader Abimael Guzman lives on in Peru
Inside the memory of 9/11
Twenty years later, it’s hard to remember how the world reacted with a unity unthinkable today
Cold War rematch
The winners of the Cold War turned out to be the authoritarians, not the democrats
They call it Poppy love
Poppy is, simply, a dog who knows what she wants
Good, mostly clean, fun
The Boys from Syracuse, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
Imagine there’s no Gove
Who’s in the room matters, and there were some which would have been better off without Michael Gove
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
Junk food? More like junk statistics
New claims about the costs of obesity are wildly exaggerated
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
