The United States' former ambassador to Ukraine, Bridget Brink, tells Alexandra Hall Hall that she couldn't "in good conscience" execute the President's plans for the country
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As Russia declares its intent to destroy Ukraine's front line city, 60,000 civilians face being cut off by drone attacks
The US-EU trade deal is a "hopelessly one-sided" agreement, which will ultimately harm the economy on both sides of the Atlantic, argues Simon Nixon
I doubt any of you will recall, but in 2003 I wrote a long post over at a different place, that NATO was dead. It was useless, much like the Concert of Europe that emerged after the 1848 Revolutions in Europe recast and sought to revise the settlement of 1815, set up by Castlereagh-Metternich and […]
On the anniversary of the Srebenica massacre, Chris Keulemans reflects on three decades of trauma, insult and neglect
Amnesty argues successive UK Governments ‘created the system they now condemn’
Viktor Orbán’s Government humiliated as more than 180,000 protesters defy his decision to ban Budapest Pride
Ukrainians are enduring a significant increase in the scale and frequency of Russian attacks, reports George Llewelyn
Attempts by centre left parties to mimic the right on immigration almost always ends up strengthening the very far right parties they hope to defeat, reports Olly Haynes
Zarina Zabrisky, who first exposed the "human safari" in Kherson for Byline Times in July 2024, reports on the UN’s historic confirmation that Russia deliberately targeted civilians in a campaign of terror.