Presenting Events As They Truly Are
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
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 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...
Posted on 18th Sep 2026
The European Parliament has adopted a resolution on hybrid warfare and the protection of the EU’s territorial integrity and critical security and defence infrastructure. The resolution, led by Lithuanian MEP Rasa Juknevičienė, was debated on 15 September and adopted on 16 September 2026. Irish MEP...
Posted on 14th May 2026
A question that would have sounded absurd twenty years ago is now being discussed seriously across the internet, political circles, universities, and diplomatic spaces around the world. Is Xi Jinping becoming the leader of what people once confidently called the “free world”? The reason this questio...