Posted on 12th Jul 2026
Senator Lindsey Graham died late on the night of July 11, following what his office described as a brief and sudden illness. A preliminary report from the District of Columbia medical examiner listed the cause as an aortic dissection tied to cardiovascular disease. He was 71, and had returned from h...
Posted on 12th Jul 2026
For years, one of the most confident assumptions in Western political and media circles has been that the Islamic Republic of Iran survives only through fear, and that the moment its leadership fell, the country would erupt in celebration. It was repeated so often by officials and commentators that...
Posted on 23rd Jun 2026
Somewhere in Lagos, on a humid evening in 2026, a man sits on a balcony staring into the darkness. The city is alive. Traffic crawls. Street vendors argue over prices. A church choir practises somewhere in the distance. A mosque's loudspeaker answers from another direction. Young people scroll throu...
Posted on 21st Jun 2026
South Africa has a real problem right now, and it has a fake problem layered on top of it, and the two are getting mixed together so often that most people online cannot tell where one ends and the other begins. The real problem is xenophobic violence. It is documented, it is recent, and it has al...
Posted on 21st Jun 2026
Civilisations announce themselves through what they build and through what they leave behind. The Egyptians built the pyramids of Giza and left behind an architectural civilisation that humanity has spent five thousand years attempting to comprehend. The Romans paved roads that still run beneath the...
Posted on 21st Jun 2026
There is a question that no government official in Abuja will answer honestly, because the honest answer is too damning to survive in the morning newspapers. The question is this: if the rate at which Nigerians are being kidnapped and killed continues to climb at its current trajectory, and if the s...
Posted on 21st Jun 2026
There is a particular kind of moral dishonesty that masquerades as solidarity, and Western Europe has been practising it with remarkable discipline since February 2022. To scrutinise Ukraine's deep and unresolved relationship with wartime extremism is, in the approved discourse of Brussels and Washi...
Posted on 17th May 2026
There was a time when history had weight. It existed physically in newspapers, books, journals, photographs, public records, handwritten letters, archived footage, and dusty libraries protected by age, distance, and duplication. A government could lie, distort, or propagandise, but somewhere in a ba...
Posted on 15th May 2026
Every year on May 9, Russia marks Victory Day with military parades, remembrance ceremonies and national reflection over the Soviet Union’s role in defeating Nazi Germany during the Second World War, and every year the Western political and media establishment reacts with the same predictable mixtur...
Posted on 14th May 2026
The modern international order is collapsing under the weight of its own hypocrisy, and millions of people around the world are no longer pretending not to notice it. Every year, Western governments lecture the world about democracy, human rights, freedom of navigation, international law, sovereignt...