Publications by pp_editor

A day in Kramatorsk on the eastern front

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Sunday 1 February 2026 A day in Kramatorsk begins without ceremony. There is no clean […]

01.02.2026

Trafigura’s new deals with India: non-Russian barrels

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Sunday 1 February 2026 In the normally opaque world of oil trading, a single phrase […]

01.02.2026

Have large language models discredited journalism?

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Sunday 1 February 2026 A quiet question now hangs over almost every article we read […]

31.01.2026

Russian Urals crude offshore storage

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Saturday 31 January 2026 In the winter of 2026 a small but telling spectacle has […]

31.01.2026

Fixing Ukrainian conscription

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Saturday 31 January 2026 President Volodymyr Zelenskyyโ€™s instruction to Ukraineโ€™s newly appointed Defence Minister, Mykhailo […]

31.01.2026

Can the United Nations really collapse for lack of money?

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Saturday 31 December 2026 The warning from Antรณnio Guterres that the United Nations could face […]

31.01.2026

Britain is drinking less

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 30 January 2026 The United Kingdom is drinking less than she used to. That […]

30.01.2026

Reintegrating without Returning: The United Kingdom and Europeโ€™s Search for Practical Alignment

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 30 December 2026 The question of how far the United Kingdom might reintegrate herself […]

30.01.2026

Ukraine: Foreigners drawn to war zones

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 30 January 2026 Foreigners have always been drawn to wars. Not only soldiers, diplomats […]

30.01.2026

In Defence of Analytical Philosophy

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 30 December 2026 A curious fashion has emerged in recent intellectual commentary: a sustained […]

30.01.2026