Cut Through The Consensus
Take a look through our global lens on politics overseas.
‘Where are you from?’ we asked, eagerly. ‘I am from Palestine’ came the proud response. He then affirmed, in the subsequent discussion of...
2026. Not only the year of the Hungarian elections that ousted Victor Orbán in April; of Israeli elections that may unseat Benjamin Netanyahu...
The longer the Iran War continues, the more difficult it is for the Trump administration to make a conflict it cannot end to...
The glorification of the funeral of war criminal Ratko Mladić is a source of national shame not pride for Serbia.
The women who shaped international relations were never absent—they were simply left out of the story.
Denial, media potency, and the implications for American climate policy.
The world’s most powerful states are slowly but surely falling apart. The reason probably isn’t what you think.
Biologically, all people are born with the same needs: food, water, and shelter. We call this survival. Morally, all people are born with...
Hegemony is never truly peaceful. A world order orchestrated by one power is, even in the absence of war, not peaceful in any...
There is a company in the Netherlands whose machines are so complex, so singular, and so indispensable that without them, the machinery of...
There is a particular species of political cowardice that presents itself as administrative tidiness. When Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke announced on 25...
From a position of equal strength post-WWII, the UK has since fallen to one of submission, allowing for the sort of degrading antipathy...
For years now, Orbán has greased the cogs of his eternal clockwork of corruption. He is a mastermind of weaponising narratives, of fearmongering,...
The ongoing trial of the Austrian secret service official is a worrisome reminder that Kremlin sympathisers dwell among us…and are listening closely.
What looks like cruelty from afar is, for Iranians who endured decades of repression, the sound of survival.
The SPD didn’t fail because it lacked principles – but because it mistook restraint for responsibility.
Zohran Mamdani and Donald Trump are both unashamed of their politics and identities - is this how the game is played now?
Venezuela, and Maduro, are mere omens of what is to come. So, what have the events of the past few days actually revealed?
The thirtieth edition of COP – the global climate conference designed to bring world leaders together to discuss sustainability and unite countries under...
As the new Schwarzman Centre opens its doors in Oxford, questions remain over how far one man’s influence can, and should, extend.
Mamdani now has the chance to do the impossible again. He campaigned relentlessly on the issue of ‘affordability’, pledging to attack the cost...
Taxi drivers are among those who fight for democracy. Pro-democracy demonstrations against South Korea’s authoritarian dictatorship during the Gwangju Uprising in 1980 were...
The bleak truth, however, is that symbolic and democratic diplomacy of this kind no longer does matter, at least not to any meaningful...
The simple answer is that the centre-right has been forced to evolve. These parties have assumed different identities to redress electoral failure. Either...
Charlie Kirk's death was avoidable and unjustifiable, though he might not have seen it that way. Now, tragically, his own name has joined...
As another government collapses and national debt continues to mount, is there any way out of this crisis for the French president?
Wales and Argentina - two countries separated by the Atlantic Ocean and unified through English oppression. Nowhere is this unlikely alliance clearer than...
International development cooperation, or international aid, has fallen right off the social and political agenda. The UK reneged on its 0.7% of GNI...
Chatbots, deepfakes, machine-based intelligence. Distinguishing what is real from what appears to be real is one of the defining issues of our age....
