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The Kuril Islands may seem like a remote corner of the Pacific, but they continue to influence the strategic balance of power in North-East Asia. Vladimir Putin’s visit to Iturup (Etorofu in Japanese) was certainly not merely a routine official stop: it was a demonstration of sovereignty, a political signal directed at Tokyo and a […]

There is a strand of public debate on the continent that never ceases to fascinate those whose profession involves analysing figures with even a modicum of rigour. It is the ‘creative finance’ of popular perception: that surreal discipline whereby the gravity of public spending is not calculated on the basis of the size of the […]

From the feriae of Rome to the ‘image of God’ in Genesis, right through to the Assumption of Mary: a brief European history of dignity and freedom. The holiday that some countries enojy on August 15 (still called Ferragosto in Italy, from the ancient feriae Augusti) is a good opportunity to have some serious fun […]

Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota paint a more complex picture than the Democratic Party’s supposed shift to the left In the article published on 5 August, in the wake of Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in the Democratic primary for the Michigan Senate, we had noted how that result could be seen as an important sign of the […]

Lithuania is one of the countries that has been most supportive of Ukraine. This support did not begin in February 2022 but dates back to the Russian invasion of Crimea in 2014. These are two nations with a painful shared past and deep ties of friendship. Vilnius, January 1991: cold and fear. The Lithuanian capital […]

Political violence does not begin today and, above all, it does not begin the moment someone throws a punch, hurls an object or physically attacks an opponent. That is merely the final link in a chain that begins much earlier. It often begins with words, but even before words there is something more insidious: intolerance. […]