Posted on 21st Sep 2026
Germany’s political landscape has entered a difficult new phase after the September 20 state elections delivered a historic setback for Chancellor Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democratic Union. In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) won about 38.3% of the vote, while...
Posted on 21st Sep 2026
The controversy surrounding Ed Sheeran, Macklemore and the war in Gaza has become a striking example of how difficult it is to keep politics outside popular culture when artists themselves are operating inside institutions shaped by politics, money and public pressure. What began with Macklemore's p...
Posted on 21st Sep 2026
There is something deeply troubling about a government spending roughly N21 billion to complete an official residence for the Vice President, commissioning it with great ceremony, and then leaving the building unused for nearly two years. The residence for Vice President Kashim Shettima was commissi...
Posted on 21st Sep 2026
The war in Ukraine has entered another dangerous phase, one in which the distance between the battlefield and the capitals of Europe is becoming increasingly difficult to measure. On September 20, Ukraine launched what Russian authorities described as the largest drone attack on Moscow since the beg...
Posted on 21st Sep 2026
Few exchanges surrounding the Russia-Ukraine war capture the human cost of prolonged conflict more starkly than the argument that erupted after the death of a 32-year-old Ukrainian man named Volodymyr, who drowned while attempting to escape military recruitment officers. According to an account publ...
Posted on 21st Sep 2026
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has delivered an unusually blunt message amid growing tensions between NATO and Russia: Slovakia may be a member of NATO, but he does not want Slovak soldiers drawn into a wider war. Responding to Czech President Petr Pavel, a former NATO general who criticised Fi...
Posted on 21st Sep 2026
The debate over Europe’s role in the Russia-Ukraine war is becoming increasingly difficult to separate from a broader question: is the objective simply to defend Ukraine, or has weakening Russia itself become part of the strategic objective? Kaja Kallas, the EU’s foreign policy chief, has made re...
Posted on 20th Sep 2026
The most unsettling warnings about artificial intelligence may not come from critics outside the industry, but from the people who have spent years building the systems themselves. On September 9, 2026, AI researcher Jacob Coxon announced his resignation from Anthropic after three years working in...
Posted on 20th Sep 2026
There was a time when travelling across Nigeria could be an adventure rather than an act of calculation. In a recent reflection, Nigerian lawyer Abdul Mahmud recalled a five-week road journey he undertook in 1998 with his girlfriend, travelling from Lagos through Benin, Warri, Port Harcourt, Aba,...
Posted on 20th Sep 2026
War is often discussed in the language of strategy, territory, security and national interest. Yet beneath every calculation lies a more enduring reality: human lives lost, families divided, children deprived of their futures and societies permanently altered by violence. In a recent reflection on...