At the end of 2021, the Russian government announced that it was shutting Memorial – a Moscow based foundation that was dedicated to the study of the country’s communist past…
Robert Tyler
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Every year, The Economist names its country of the year. This year it opted for Italy, for seemingly no other reason than its infatuation with incumbent Prime Minister, and long-time…
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One year on from the stolen Belarusian elections, Lukashenko still remains in power. His iron grip on the country has tightened in the weeks and months since the people of…
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Earlier in the year, I produced what I described as my lockdown reading list for conservatives. A confinement later, and things are starting to look up. We are in many…
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In January 2020, as tensions were mounting in the Middle East following the assassination of Iranian General Qassim Soleimani by the United States, the world looked as though it might…
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For centuries, Afghanistan has been seen as the last untamed frontier. From the geopolitical struggle between Tsarist Russia and the British Empire in the 19th Century, to the long drawn…
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For several weeks now, Russia has been massing its forces on the border with Ukraine. A steady stream of footage has shown armoured vehicles, heavy artillery, tanks and troop transports…
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If a week is a long time in politics, a year and a half feels like a century. At least that is how it seems when looking at the career…
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This week the European Union finally introduced new sanctions against the Chinese government over their treatment of the Uyghur people in Xinjiang. The deployment of new Magnitsky style targeted sanctions…
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For the longest time, the European Union has tried to project itself as a player on the global stage. Successive EU Commission and Council Presidents have been invited to major…
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