Publications by pp_editor

A Winter’s Embrace: Christmas and New Year in Lviv

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Tuesday 23 December 2025 There are few places in Europe where the spirit of Christmas […]

23.12.2025

The Jeffrey Epstein saga

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Sunday 21 December 2025 The saga of Jeffrey Epstein occupies a peculiar and unsettling place […]

21.12.2025

Power in Moscow

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Sunday 21 December 2025 Power in Moscow has rarely been simple, and in the contemporary […]

21.12.2025

On the difference between the rulers and the ruled

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Saturday 20 December 2025 Distinguishing a nation’s ruled from its rulers is one of the […]

20.12.2025

Use of mines on Europe’s eastern flank with Russia

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Saturday 20 December 2025 Along Europe’s eastern flank, from the Arctic approaches of northern Finland […]

20.12.2025

Putin’s little pigs remark

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 19 December 2025 Putin’s “little pigs” line, uttered at a public military meeting in […]

19.12.2025

Russia’s shadow fleet and intelligence assets

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 19 December 2025 The emergence of Russia’s shadow fleet of oil tankers has become […]

19.12.2025

Two kinds of backing for Ukraine

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 19 December 2025 Ukraine has, in the same week, received two very different kinds […]

19.12.2025

The International Claims Commission of Ukraine

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor The International Claims Commission of Ukraine has this week crossed the threshold from legal concept […]

18.12.2025

Could Russia attack Europe via Finland?

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor For much of modern history the European imagination has been dominated by visions of conflict […]

18.12.2025