The European Parliament has adopted a resolution on hybrid warfare and the protection of the EU’s territorial integrity and critical security and defence infrastructure. The resolution, led by Lithuanian MEP Rasa Juknevičienė, was debated on 15 September and adopted on 16 September 2026.
Irish MEP...
War is often discussed in the language of strategy, territory, security and national interest. Yet beneath every calculation lies a more enduring reality: human lives lost, families divided, children deprived of their futures and societies permanently altered by violence.
In a recent reflection on...
There is a certain kind of question that forces a country to look in the mirror without flinching. Could Nigeria survive the kind of sustained, multi-decade sanctions imposed on Iran is one of those questions. It is not simply a thought experiment. It is a stress test of institutions, leadership, ec...
A question that would have sounded absurd twenty years ago is now being discussed seriously across the internet, political circles, universities, and diplomatic spaces around the world. Is Xi Jinping becoming the leader of what people once confidently called the “free world”? The reason this questio...
The controversy surrounding Ed Sheeran, Macklemore and the war in Gaza has become a striking example of how difficult it is to keep politics outside popular culture when artists themselves are operating inside institutions shaped by politics, money and public pressure. What began with Macklemore's p...
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has delivered an unusually blunt message amid growing tensions between NATO and Russia: Slovakia may be a member of NATO, but he does not want Slovak soldiers drawn into a wider war.
Responding to Czech President Petr Pavel, a former NATO general who criticised Fi...
When Donald Trump publicly floated the idea that Vladimir Putin could attend the upcoming G20 Summit, it sent the usual corners of the global commentariat into a predictable spiral. Outrage from some, cautious intrigue from others, and quiet calculation from those who understand that geopolitics is...
There is a Google search that tells you everything you need to know about how information works in the modern world.
Type the words "propaganda" and "Russia" into any search engine. The first page fills instantly , Global Affairs Canada, the BBC, Deutsche Welle, the EU Council, RAND Corporatio...
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...
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...
