Publications by pp_editor

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham: what next?

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Sunday 21 June 2026 The rumours swirling around Westminster this weekend are extraordinary even by […]

21.06.2026

Contemporary Iran: the Revolution Deferred

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Sunday 21 June 2026 There is a particular cruelty in disappointment when it follows hope. […]

21.06.2026

The Trumpโ€“Meloni Affair: Conservatism, Celebrity and the Limits of Political Romance

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Sunday 21 June 2026 Politics has always borrowed its language from romance. Alliances are described […]

21.06.2026

The Pro-Trump Right and the Pro-Russia Far-Right May Be Parting Ways

By Robert Harris Sunday 21 June 2026 In the 1990s, there was a movie called “Street Fighter,” based on the […]

21.06.2026

The Arithmetic of Absence

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Sunday 21 June 2026 There are some forms of grief for which language feels obscenely […]

21.06.2026

Georgia at the Crossroads: The Long Road Back Towards Moscow

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Saturday 20 June 2026 For much of the period following the collapse of the Soviet […]

20.06.2026

Russian efforts to restrict VPN usage

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 19 June 2026 Russian efforts to restrict access to virtual private networks (VPNs) reveal […]

19.06.2026

Leeds to the Front Line: The Quiet Determination of a Yorkshire Charity Supporting Ukraine

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 19 June 2026 In the fifth year of Russiaโ€™s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, international […]

19.06.2026

โ€œYou Realise How Valuable Life Is When Death Feels Possible Every Dayโ€

By Kathrin Franziska Beck Friday 19 June 2026 โ€œThank you for supporting our music family,โ€ Mykhailo writes from afar. He […]

19.06.2026

The Islamabad Memorandum and the JCPOA: Two Visions of Diplomacy with Iran

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 19 June 2026 The agreement reached this week between the United States and Iran, […]

19.06.2026