The opening sequence, inexplicably, has a wrestling match with two contests enjoying their carnage, only for us to find a whistleblower in the crowd being threatened by two official-looking goons. The ...

The Church of England is undergoing a disheartening descent into spiritual darkness. Once an institution embodying truth, ...

The remarkable thing is that, in this story, the crocodile is actually the most consistent participant. He does not pretend ...

Most people know Qatar only because this small Gulf state hosted the 2022 World Cup, a tournament intended primarily to ...

Armenia’s June 7 parliamentary elections produced a result that was analysed carefully in neighbouring Azerbaijan. The ruling ...

The global discussions around the controversial movie Citizen Vigilante are both boring and alarming. Because if people don’t ...

I am asked how I can stand up for Jews in general and Israel in particular, now that a United Nations commission of inquiry has concluded that the country allegedly deliberately killed children. My ...

Watched a rather bizarre movie the other day, The November Men (1993), that purports to be about a director (Paul Williams) making a docudrama about a plot to kill the president. The man’s a radical ...

According to the biblical account, Moses led God's chosen people out of Egypt through ten plagues, parted a sea, wandered forty years through the desert, and finally reached a land they had never seen ...

As Donald Trump arrived in Ankara this week to reset relations with Turkey, the visit immediately raised questions extending far beyond NATO diplomacy. At a moment when the Middle East is being ...

The visit of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to Baku on 1 July 2026 marks more than another milestone in Azerbaijan–European Union relations. It signals a broader geopolitical ...

Dr Ken van Ierlant is a Dutch data entrepreneur and the CEO of FutureXL, based in The Hague. He writes about data innovation and a wide variety of geopolitical issues, specialising in the ...