In an era marked by grandiose moves and countermoves of geopolitical chess, the Indo-Pacific region stands at its epicentre. At the heart of this game is the clash of the …

If 2016 was the populist party, 2017 was the hangover. There was much too much noise with the executive orders, press conferences, and tweets. The “fake news” and “alternative facts” …

Discussions concerning current affairs in the USA are often marked by lurches in one way or another: coverage can stem from a tweet to judicial indictments to a school shooting …

Among commentators on Korean politics, there is a renowned saying that “the conservatives are ruined by corruption, yet the progressives are ruined by dissolution.” While this usually applies to politics, endless …

In his essay Politics and the English Language, George Orwell diagnosed the problem of Modern English as the following: “It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the …

Once again, Senate Republicans are proving that it is they, and not President Trump, who should wear the crown of most incompetent in American politics. In the biggest change to …

“People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.” In The Iraq Inquiry II, we focused on the downfall of the Coalition Provisional …

When it came to negotiating with the Iranian regime about its nuclear adventures, China had the most leverage. That is, economically China was the only country still willing to develop …

In the modern age of short news cycles and even shorter attention spans, things that ought to shock and disturb us are quickly accepted as the new norm. I could list …

In 1977, at the height of the Cold War, Lucasfilm released Star Wars, the beginnings of a saga centred around totalitarianism, imperialism and planetary destruction. Just a few months earlier, …