Editor in chief

Editor in chief:  Said Batrouni

PEN Name:  Marcos Fidel

Driving under drone nets

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Thursday 26 February 2026 There is a peculiar stillness to roads near the front line […]

26.02.2026

British sanctions on Russia’s Transneft

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Wednesday 25 February 2026 The newest British sanctions package against Russia is not chiefly a […]

25.02.2026

Joseph Stalin

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Wednesday 25 February 2026 To write about the personality of Joseph Stalin is to enter […]

25.02.2026

Twelve Good Citizens: Why Trial by Jury Remains a Pillar of British Liberty

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Wednesday 25 February 2026 There are few institutions in the constitutional life of the United […]

25.02.2026

The Army That Eats Its Own

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Wednesday 25 February 2026 Four years into Russia’s full-scale invasion, a grim secondary story has […]

24.02.2026

Between Washington and Brussels: The United Kingdom as Transatlantic Interlocutor in an Age of Fracture

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Wednesday 25 February 2026 The transatlantic alliance has always been less an immutable structure than […]

24.02.2026

Misconduct in public office — an ancient offence under modern strain

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Tuesday 24 February 2026 The arrest, on suspicion of misconduct in public office, of Andrew […]

24.02.2026

The Age of Unreason? Social Media, Artificial Intelligence and the Retreat from the Enlightenment

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Tuesday 24 February 2026 There was a time — not so very long ago — […]

24.02.2026

Russian invasion of Ukraine — Four Years On

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Tuesday 24 February 2026 Four years have now passed since the dawn airstrikes and armoured […]

24.02.2026

Hungary’s veto politics, the Druzhba oil artery, and what Ukraine pays for it

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Tuesday 24 February 2026 On 23 February 2026 Hungary moved to block two things that […]

23.02.2026