Publications by pp_editor

Yemen’s 2026 ceasefire

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Saturday 2 May 2026 The ceasefire in Yemen is one of those rare political phenomena […]

02.05.2026

The Russian Central Bank’s decision to require lenders to hold reserves in Yuan

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Saturday 2 May 2026 The announcement by the Central Bank of Russia under the stewardship […]

02.05.2026

Reforming the Armed Forces of Ukraine

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Saturday 2 May 2026 The latest reform programme for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, announced […]

02.05.2026

The pioneering neuroscience of Charles M. Lieber, Chinese government agent

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Saturday 2 May 2026 The trajectory of modern neuroscience has increasingly converged with the ambitions […]

02.05.2026

Cryptology as a political instrument

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 1 May 2026 Cryptography is often imagined as a branch of mathematics, an austere […]

01.05.2026

Mavka and the Spirit of Ukraine in Wartime

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 1 May 2026 The recent Ukrainian ballet Mavka emerges not merely as an artistic […]

01.05.2026

Can large language models understand their users?

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 1 May 2026 The aspiration to make machines understand us has always been more […]

01.05.2026

War in Ukraine: is the Kremlin at a turning point?

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 1 May 2026 The temptation, when confronted with a fresh statement from the Kremlin, […]

01.05.2026

Europeโ€™s Energy Independence: Myth, Policy and Reality

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Thursday 30 April 2026 Europe speaks often of โ€œenergy independenceโ€ โ€” a phrase that carries […]

30.04.2026

A resurgence of racism in the West

By Matthew Parish Thursday 30 April 2026 The suggestion that the West may be experiencing a resurgence of racism, and […]

30.04.2026