Editor in chief
Editor in chief: Said Batrouni
PEN Name: Marcos Fidel
Britain and the Politics of Tolerance in an Age of Populism
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Wednesday 18 February 2026 For centuries Britain has cultivated a reputation — sometimes earned, sometimes […]
Ukraine’s Winter Riposte: Tactical Gains and the Anatomy of a Local Counter-Offensive
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Tuesday 17 February 2026 In the fourth winter of full-scale war, when many observers had […]
The Arrest at the Border and the Rule of Law in Ukraine: A Turning Point or a Test?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Tuesday 17 February 2026 On the night of 15 February 2026 Ukrainian anti-corruption authorities detained […]
Iraq’s latest instability — why she keeps returning to crisis politics
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Tuesday 17 February 2026 Iraq’s current political instability is not a sudden relapse so much […]
Trump’s support for Viktor Orbán
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Monday 16 February 2026 Hungary goes to the polls on 12 April 2026 with a […]
The role of lawyers in Ukraine
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Monday 16 February 2026 In countries whose legal systems evolved over centuries of relatively uninterrupted […]
The Kremlin’s European Courtship — How Russia Courts the Extremes, and Why Europe Keeps Letting Her
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Monday 16 February 2026 There is a persistent misunderstanding in European political life that Russian […]
The history and future of the World Wide Web
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Monday 16 February 2026 The World Wide Web was born from a very small problem […]
Courage on the front line
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Monday 16 February 2026 To speak of courage in war is to risk flattening it […]
Redistribution of NATO Command
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Monday 16 February 2026 In early February 2026 NATO agreed a quiet but symbolically loaded […]
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