Monday 30 March 2026 The courtroom in Jerusalem in 1961 was not merely a place of legal reckoning; it was a theatre in which the moral vocabulary of the modern age was put on trial. When Hannah Arendt travelled to observe the proceedings against Adolf Eichmann, she did not find a monster in the conventional sense. She found instead a man of unsettling ordinariness—one who spoke in clichés, deferred to authority, and seemed incapable of genuine reflection upon the consequences

Monday 30 March 2026 The diplomatic tour undertaken by Volodymyr Zelenskyy across the Gulf States in March 2026 marks one of the most consequential reorientations of Ukrainian foreign policy since the outset of the full-scale Russian invasion. It is not merely a search for matériel or funding — although both are urgently required — but a deliberate attempt to reposition Ukraine as a security provider in a rapidly fragmenting international order. At the centre of these agreeme

Sunday 29 March 2026 The Islamic Republic of Iran is often described in terms of her ideological rigidity, yet such a characterisation obscures one of her most notable attributes — an unusual resilience in the face of change. Since the convulsions of the Iranian Revolution in 1979 she has endured not only external pressures but also profound internal transitions, including the deaths of founding figures and generational shifts within her ruling elite. What emerges from this h

Sunday 29 March 2026 The modern enthusiasm for artificial intelligence is often framed in the language of progress – efficiency, productivity, discovery. Yet beneath this rhetoric lies a more disquieting question, one that echoes across centuries of industrial transformation: who, precisely, will benefit? In his most recent annual letter Larry Fink, the chief executive of BlackRock, has given this question renewed urgency, warning that the boom in artificial intelligence risk

Saturday 28 March 2026 Ukraine’s war has produced not only a generation of soldiers but a generation of veterans whose relationship with the state is mediated increasingly through paperwork, procedure and, too often, litigation. As the front line hardens into a protracted contest of endurance, the rear has developed its own quieter struggle: that of men and women who have returned from service only to find that recognition, compensation and care are neither automatic nor easi