The grotesque spectacle of the livestreamed execution
Two recent incidents in the United States have brought the death penalty back into the spotlight. The botched execution of Christa Pike on 30 September horrified people across the world.…
Two recent incidents in the United States have brought the death penalty back into the spotlight. The botched execution of Christa Pike on 30 September horrified people across the world.…
It was certainly set up to look and feel like a historic speech. With the Acropolis acting as the backdrop, US secretary of state Marco Rubio laid out his new…
The idea of human equality, so deeply entrenched in modern religious and liberal ideals, is widely rejected by the tech elite. Some tech-oriented thinkers, such as Curtis Yarvin, embrace an…
It wasn’t by accident that one of the first things Chinese president Xi Jinping heard when he touched down in Washington on Thursday was the deafening roar of two B-1…
No sooner had Donald Trump announced his ‘deal’ with Denmark and Greenland, granting the US ‘permanent control over [the Arctic territory’s] security’, than two sharply opposing views of the deal’s…
Who sounds madder to you: the bloke in the pub who likes golf and whiskey or the twat on the street wearing a keffiyeh like a holy shroud while cackling…
The Trumpian epoch seems like an eternity, but it is now entering its final chapter. During the final two years of his reign, with Republicans clearly losing ground across the…
Argentine president Javier Milei finally went there. Addressing the nation last week, he reasserted Argentina’s claim on Las Malvinas – known to the rest of us as the Falkland Islands,…
Did Trump write a secret executive order decreeing that angry D-list British attention whores must be returned to their nation of origin? First, Prince Harry and his American wife mysteriously…
There is an old Ukrainian proverb: a gentle calf suckles two mothers. ‘Gentle’ has never been Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky’s style. ‘Clever’ is a better fit. And he has been…