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Ukraine, Continued Aid, and the Prevailing Logic of Slaughter

Nigeria, June 15 -- War always commands its own appeal. It has its own frazzled laurels, the calling of its own worn poets tenured in propaganda. In battle, the poets keep writing, and keep glorifying... Read More


The EU Elections: The March of the Right

Nigeria, June 12 -- The EU elections over June 6 to June 9 have presented a chaotically merry picture, certainly for those on the right of politics. Not that the right in question is reliably homogene... Read More


Diamonds and Cold Dust: Slaughter at Nuseirat

Nigeria, June 12 -- The ashes had barely settled on a Rafah tent camp incinerated by an Israeli airstrike before the next, gorged massacre presented itself for posterity's gloomy archive. It was inten... Read More


Modi's Comeuppance: The Waning of Hindutva

Nigeria, June 8 -- Lock them up. The whole bally lot. The pollsters, the pundits, the parasitic hacks clinging to the life raft of politics in the hope of earning their crust. Yet again, the election ... Read More


Inexplicable Investments: Elbit Systems and Australia's Future Fund

Nigeria, June 5 -- Australia's modest sovereign wealth fund, modestly standing at A$272.3 billion, has crawled into some trouble of late. Investors, morally twinged, are keeping an eye on where the mo... Read More


Ming Vase Politics: UK Labour and Purging the Corbynistas

Nigeria, June 4 -- By any reckoning, this was the move of a fool. A fool, it should be said, motivated by spite larded with caution. Evidently playing safe, adopting what has been called a "Ming Vase ... Read More


The Stuffing of Crime: Israel's Rafah Strike

Nigeria, June 1 -- It was much like witnessing a boy killing flies, with a slight afterthought of apology. The spokesman for the Israeli Defense Forces, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, did little to acqui... Read More


Soaking Sunak Calls the Sodding Election

Nigeria, May 30 -- It was a pitiful sight. Soaked and literally washed-out, the feeble thin British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, made an announcement that caught many in his party by surprise. On July... Read More


A Certain French Stubbornness: Violence in New Caledonia

Nigeria, May 28 -- France's Emmanuel Macron can, at times, show himself at odds with the grime and gristle of grounded politics. Able to pack in various snatches of philosophical reflection in a speec... Read More


Australia's Anti-ICC Lobby

Nigeria, May 25 -- Throwing caution to the wind, grasping the nettle, and every little smidgen of opportunity, Australia's opposition leader, Peter Dutton, was thrilled to make a point in the gurgling... Read More