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...

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...

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...

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...

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...