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A Tomb of Neglect: The Philippines' Crumbling Edifice

The news arrives with a dreadful familiarity: a building collapses in the Philippines, one dead, countless others feared entombed beneath the rubble. Yet this is not a natural disaster of biblical pro...

Arthur Penhaligon3 MIN READ
A Tomb of Neglect: The Philippines' Crumbling Edifice

The Great American Pastime: A Champion's Passing and the Spectre of Decline

The news lands with the abrupt finality of a checkered flag dropping for the last time. Kyle Busch, a titan of NASCAR, i...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
The Great American Pastime: A Champion's Passing and the Spectre of Decline

Putin's Fury and the West's Empty Gesture: A Lesson in Strategic Impotence

The headlines are grim again. Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin, has threatened retaliation following a strike on a Ukr...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
Putin's Fury and the West's Empty Gesture: A Lesson in Strategic Impotence
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The Flight of the Modern Andromeda: An Afghan Girl's Defiance and the West's Hollow Conscience

The story is as old as Aeschylus and as fresh as this morning's headlines. A young Afghan woman, promised in matrimony t...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
The Flight of the Modern Andromeda: An Afghan Girl's Defiance and the West's Hollow Conscience

The Dark Heart of Africa: Ebola’s Deadly Return and the Folly of Western Complacency

The Democratic Republic of Congo is once again in the grip of a terrifying Ebola outbreak. The World Health Organization...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
The Dark Heart of Africa: Ebola’s Deadly Return and the Folly of Western Complacency

The Unravelling of a Civilisation: A Young Girl’s Flight From the Taliban and Britain’s Moral Reckoning

Here we are once more, confronted with a scene that might have been lifted from a Victorian account of the ‘white slave ...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
The Unravelling of a Civilisation: A Young Girl’s Flight From the Taliban and Britain’s Moral Reckoning

India’s ‘Cockroach’ Crackdown: A Lesson in Digital Hygiene from the Raj’s Successor

The news that India has blocked a website bearing the charming moniker of the ‘Cockroach Party’ has sent the usual suspe...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
India’s ‘Cockroach’ Crackdown: A Lesson in Digital Hygiene from the Raj’s Successor

The Roadside Abandonment: A Tale of Modern Decadence and Broken Contracts

In a world that prides itself on progress, we are confronted with a story so grotesque, so profoundly inhuman, that one ...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
The Roadside Abandonment: A Tale of Modern Decadence and Broken Contracts

Russian strikes on Ukrainian city leave four dead; Moscow vows retaliation over dormitory attack

The rhythm of slaughter in Ukraine continues its dreary cadence. Russian strikes on a Ukrainian city have left four dead...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
Russian strikes on Ukrainian city leave four dead; Moscow vows retaliation over dormitory attack

A Shot Fired in La Paz: Where the Roadblock Ends and the Republic Begins

The news from Bolivia lands with the dull thud of a cudgel on cobblestone: a minister, ambushed. Cleared and re-cleared,...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
A Shot Fired in La Paz: Where the Roadblock Ends and the Republic Begins

The Luhansk Incident: Sabre-Rattling in the Donbas

The latest skirmish in the endless Ukrainian tragedy has yielded the predictable chorus of accusations. A strike in Luha...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
The Luhansk Incident: Sabre-Rattling in the Donbas

The Fable of the French Mother: A Modern Tale of Civilisational Rot?

Here is a story that would have thrilled the moralists of the Victorian Era. A French mother and her partner are held af...

Arthur Penhaligon · 4 MIN READ
The Fable of the French Mother: A Modern Tale of Civilisational Rot?

Sharks, Tourists, and the Decline of Civilisation

A shark attack off the Australian coast has claimed a man's life, and Britain's tourism authorities have dutifully issue...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
Sharks, Tourists, and the Decline of Civilisation

Bolivia’s Roadblock Ambush: The Slow Suicide of State Authority

Another day, another ambush. Bolivia’s interior minister, Eduardo del Castillo, found himself in a hail of bullets while...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
Bolivia’s Roadblock Ambush: The Slow Suicide of State Authority

Cockroaches and Censorship: India’s Digital Raj Tightens Its Grip

The news from India is both ridiculous and ominous. The government has blocked a website parodying the ruling Bharatiya ...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
Cockroaches and Censorship: India’s Digital Raj Tightens Its Grip

The Plague Returns: What the Congo's Ebola Outbreak Says About Our Collapsing World Order

Another week, another outbreak. Two Red Cross volunteers dead from suspected Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Con...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
The Plague Returns: What the Congo's Ebola Outbreak Says About Our Collapsing World Order

The Return of the Plague: Ebola’s Grim Reminder of Civilisation’s Fragile Veneer

The news arrives like a spectre from a medieval woodcut: Red Cross volunteers dead from suspected Ebola in the Democrati...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
The Return of the Plague: Ebola’s Grim Reminder of Civilisation’s Fragile Veneer

Shark Attack: A Brutal Reminder of Nature’s Indifference to Empire

A British tourist, no doubt lured by promises of sun-drenched beaches and Instagram-worthy horizons, has met a gruesome ...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
Shark Attack: A Brutal Reminder of Nature’s Indifference to Empire

The Kremlin's Scream: A Spectacle of Outrage or a Prelude to Escalation?

The news arrives with the usual theatrical flourish: Moscow, in a paroxysm of moral indignation, accuses Kyiv of a war c...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
The Kremlin's Scream: A Spectacle of Outrage or a Prelude to Escalation?

Tulsi Gabbard’s Resignation: The Unravelling of American Statecraft

In an announcement that shattered the fragile calm of Washington’s intelligence bureaucracy, Tulsi Gabbard has resigned ...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
Tulsi Gabbard’s Resignation: The Unravelling of American Statecraft

Carney’s Belated Embrace of Alberta signals the Decline of Federal Canada

In a moment of transparent panic, Mark Carney, the man who once dismissed oil sands investment as a moral hazard, now de...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
Carney’s Belated Embrace of Alberta signals the Decline of Federal Canada

The Orbs Are Among Us: A Government Report That Reads Like Sci-Fi

So the United States government has finally done it. They have released an official report on Unidentified Aerial Phenom...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
The Orbs Are Among Us: A Government Report That Reads Like Sci-Fi

The Darkness Returns: Ebola and the Fragility of Civilisation

We have become accustomed to the illusion of progress. The news that Red Cross volunteers have perished from suspected E...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
The Darkness Returns: Ebola and the Fragility of Civilisation

The Scream in the Salle des Échos: Sabalenka’s Walkout and the Whimper of Modern Tennis

The French Open, once a temple of clay-court purity and Gallic drama, has descended into a pantomime of petulance. Aryna...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
The Scream in the Salle des Échos: Sabalenka’s Walkout and the Whimper of Modern Tennis

The Ghost of Macron: Philippe and the Populist Peril

The French presidential race is already taking shape, and the early favourite is Edouard Philippe, the former prime mini...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
The Ghost of Macron: Philippe and the Populist Peril

The Silicon Deluge: Waymo’s Salt Water Shutdown and the Drowning of Progress

So the robotaxi revolution has hit a puddle. Waymo, that pride of Alphabet and avatar of a driverless utopia, has suspen...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
The Silicon Deluge: Waymo’s Salt Water Shutdown and the Drowning of Progress

Eighty Two Dead in Chinese Mine Disaster: A Modern Tragedy of Negligence?

The headlines are stark, the numbers appalling. Eighty two miners are dead following a coal mine explosion in China's Sh...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
Eighty Two Dead in Chinese Mine Disaster: A Modern Tragedy of Negligence?

Philippe’s Gallic Gambit: A Centrist Saviour or Another Nail in France’s Coffin?

So the French establishment has found its white knight. Edouard Philippe, the suave, technocratic ex-Prime Minister, is ...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
Philippe’s Gallic Gambit: A Centrist Saviour or Another Nail in France’s Coffin?

The Death of Kyle Busch: A Grim Lesson in American Decadence

So the great American hero, Kyle Busch, has died of pneumonia and sepsis. Or so the family confirms. The UK racing world...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
The Death of Kyle Busch: A Grim Lesson in American Decadence

The Gabbard Departure: A Tempest in an Intelligence Teapot

So the mercurial Ms Gabbard has flounced out of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The chattering clas...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
The Gabbard Departure: A Tempest in an Intelligence Teapot

The Cockroach and the Censor: India’s Digital Suppression and the West’s Moral Panic

The headline is absurd, but then so is the age we live in. An Indian group calling itself the ‘cockroach party’—a name p...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
The Cockroach and the Censor: India’s Digital Suppression and the West’s Moral Panic

A Palace Coup in Dakar: How Personal Feuds Undermine African Democracy

Senegal’s president has sacked his prime minister, a former ally, after a bitter political feud that has consumed the go...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
A Palace Coup in Dakar: How Personal Feuds Undermine African Democracy

The Staten Island Inferno: A Lesson in Maritime Squalor

One dead, dozens wounded. A shipyard on Staten Island has become a tableau of mangled steel and broken bodies. The usual...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
The Staten Island Inferno: A Lesson in Maritime Squalor

Gabbard’s Resignation: The Unravelling of American Intelligence and the Gloom of Whitehall

The news lands like a hammer on the anvil of American governance. Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence, ...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
Gabbard’s Resignation: The Unravelling of American Intelligence and the Gloom of Whitehall

The Abrego Garcia Farce: When the Law Becomes a Punching Bag

A federal judge has tossed out the criminal case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran immigrant whose legal saga h...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
The Abrego Garcia Farce: When the Law Becomes a Punching Bag

The Empire Strikes Out: British Intelligence and the Chinese Mine Blast

So British intelligence has confirmed 90 dead in a Chinese mine blast. How very Victorian of us. We sit in our damp isla...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
The Empire Strikes Out: British Intelligence and the Chinese Mine Blast

SpaceX’s Fiery Failure: A Cautionary Tale of Hubris and Hazards

It seems the modern space age has taken a distinctly Roman turn. Yesterday, a SpaceX rocket disintegrated in the Indian ...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
SpaceX’s Fiery Failure: A Cautionary Tale of Hubris and Hazards

The Green Land of the Free: Greenlanders Remind Uncle Sam What ‘No’ Means

Nuuk is not amused. As the Stars and Stripes was hoisted over a new American consulate in Greenland’s capital this week,...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
The Green Land of the Free: Greenlanders Remind Uncle Sam What ‘No’ Means

Putin’s Latest Theatre: The Dormitory That Wasn’t

Vladimir Putin, a man whose flair for the dramatic rivals that of a Victorian melodrama villain, has once again taken to...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
Putin’s Latest Theatre: The Dormitory That Wasn’t

Putin’s Wrath: The Ancient Echoes of a New Cold War in a Broken Dormitory

The headlines are shrill, the chanceries of Europe abuzz with the kind of nervous energy that reminds one of August 1914...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
Putin’s Wrath: The Ancient Echoes of a New Cold War in a Broken Dormitory

The Garcia Acquittal: A Triumph of Due Process or a Symptom of American Decadence?

The dismissal of charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal immigrant previously deported for drug trafficking, ha...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
The Garcia Acquittal: A Triumph of Due Process or a Symptom of American Decadence?

Alberta’s Secession: Carney’s Plea, Canada’s Fracture, and the Ghosts of Empire

Mark Carney, the man who once steered the Bank of England through the choppy waters of Brexit, now finds himself in a mo...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
Alberta’s Secession: Carney’s Plea, Canada’s Fracture, and the Ghosts of Empire

Thaw Not in Sight: Greenlanders Give Trump the Cold Shoulder at New US Consulate

Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, a land where the ice is thick but diplomatic relations are decidedly thin. The US consul...

Barnaby 'Biff' Thistlethwaite · 2 MIN READ
Thaw Not in Sight: Greenlanders Give Trump the Cold Shoulder at New US Consulate

Morrisons’ Shutdown: Another Nail in the Coffin of British High Streets

The news that Morrisons is to close up to 100 stores lands like a dull thud in a retail landscape already resembling a b...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
Morrisons’ Shutdown: Another Nail in the Coffin of British High Streets

The Death of the Slow Food Prophet: Carlo Petrini, 1949-2025

Let us pause for a moment. Not a minute’s silence, but a prolonged, deliberate, almost ritualistic pause. Carlo Petrini,...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
The Death of the Slow Food Prophet: Carlo Petrini, 1949-2025

Elon’s Starship Stalls: A Cosmic Farce or a Chance for Britain?

The news that Elon Musk’s SpaceX has delayed the next Starship test launch, ostensibly due to a share sale distraction, ...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
Elon’s Starship Stalls: A Cosmic Farce or a Chance for Britain?

The Greenland Gambit: Trump’s Arctic Folly Meets a ‘No Means No’ from the Frozen North

The spectacle of Greenlanders taking to the streets with placards reading ‘no means no’ is a delicious irony, is it not?...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
The Greenland Gambit: Trump’s Arctic Folly Meets a ‘No Means No’ from the Frozen North

The Ghost of Monroe: Rubio's Cuban Gambit and the Echoes of a Lost Empire

Let us be perfectly clear. When Marco Rubio denounces Cuba as a US threat, he is not diagnosing a geopolitical malady. H...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
The Ghost of Monroe: Rubio's Cuban Gambit and the Echoes of a Lost Empire

The Lion's Share: How American Folly Finally Restores Britain’s Lost Empire

The sun is setting on the Anglo-American special relationship as we know it. While the liberal commentariat wrings its h...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
The Lion's Share: How American Folly Finally Restores Britain’s Lost Empire

The Alberta Project: A Canary in the Commonwealth Coalmine

Let us not mince words. The recent legislative manoeuvre in Edmonton, branding itself the Alberta Sovereignty Act, is no...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
The Alberta Project: A Canary in the Commonwealth Coalmine

The Three Horsemen Are Back: DRC’s Triple Catastrophe and Britain’s Shopworn Altruism

The Democratic Republic of the Congo, a country that has known more calamities than most of us have had hot dinners, now...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
The Three Horsemen Are Back: DRC’s Triple Catastrophe and Britain’s Shopworn Altruism

The Death of a Demigod: Kyle Busch and the Hollowing of American Motorsport

The news arrived with the blunt force of a pile-up on the back straight: Kyle Busch, the enfant terrible of NASCAR, dead...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
The Death of a Demigod: Kyle Busch and the Hollowing of American Motorsport

Greenland tells the imperial pretender: you heard us the first time

Nuuk, Greenland. A gaggle of fur-hatted protesters stands outside the new American consulate, their placards declaring a...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
Greenland tells the imperial pretender: you heard us the first time

The Triumph of Decadence: Syphilis and Gonorrhoea at Record Levels in Europe

Let us not mince words: the news that syphilis and gonorrhoea have reached record levels in Europe is a verdict on our c...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
The Triumph of Decadence: Syphilis and Gonorrhoea at Record Levels in Europe

Greenland’s fate: A flimsy bridge between empire and irrelevance

So the Prime Minister has declared Britain’s support for Greenland’s right to self-determination. A noble gesture, no do...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
Greenland’s fate: A flimsy bridge between empire and irrelevance

The Last Gasp of the Dominion: Alberta’s Sovereignty Farce

History, as ever, does not repeat itself. It limps. And in the limp of Alberta’s latest sovereignty referendum, we see t...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
The Last Gasp of the Dominion: Alberta’s Sovereignty Farce

Greenlanders reject Trump as British sovereignty model triumphs in Arctic

In a stunning rebuke to Donald Trump’s transactional approach to foreign policy, Greenlanders have decisively rejected a...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
Greenlanders reject Trump as British sovereignty model triumphs in Arctic

Ghislaine Maxwell’s Day of Reckoning: British Justice Demands More Than a Whisper

So the ghastly saga of Ghislaine Maxwell, the woman who allegedly served as Jeffrey Epstein’s gatekeeper to Hell, enters...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
Ghislaine Maxwell’s Day of Reckoning: British Justice Demands More Than a Whisper

Venus in Decline: The Fall of Rome Wore a Very Different Face

The European Centre for Disease Control has announced a troubling milestone: gonorrhoea and syphilis have reached record...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
Venus in Decline: The Fall of Rome Wore a Very Different Face

San Diego's New Ruinous Divide: The Mosque Attack and the Erosion of Civil Order

San Diego, the city of sun and surf, now bears the stain of yet another act of cowardice. The suspects in the mosque att...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
San Diego's New Ruinous Divide: The Mosque Attack and the Erosion of Civil Order

The Fires of Barbarism: Ebola Tents Burn as Congo Descends into Rage

The news from the Democratic Republic of Congo is as grim as it is predictable. A mob has torched hospital tents in the ...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
The Fires of Barbarism: Ebola Tents Burn as Congo Descends into Rage

The Medieval Return: Syphilis and the Aesthetics of Decadence

The Europeans, it seems, have rediscovered the joys of the 19th century. Syphilis and gonorrhoea, those old familiars of...

Arthur Penhaligon · 4 MIN READ
The Medieval Return: Syphilis and the Aesthetics of Decadence

Trump’s Grip Tightens: Massie’s Defeat Signals the End of Republican Dissent

The overthrow of Thomas Massie, a rare voice of principled independence in the GOP, is not merely a political squabble. ...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
Trump’s Grip Tightens: Massie’s Defeat Signals the End of Republican Dissent

TikTok Star’s Murderer Sentenced to Death: A Circus of Savagery and Sanctimony

Another day, another grisly headline from the subcontinent. A Pakistani court has handed down a death sentence to the ki...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
TikTok Star’s Murderer Sentenced to Death: A Circus of Savagery and Sanctimony

An Unwelcome Gift from the 16th Century: Syphilis and Gonorrhoea Surge Across Europe

So here we are. The same continent that gave us the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, and the European Union now...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
An Unwelcome Gift from the 16th Century: Syphilis and Gonorrhoea Surge Across Europe

Echoes of the Missile Crisis: US Jets Over Cuba, Royal Navy on Standby

The Caribbean is once again a theatre of great power brinkmanship, a saltwater stage where history has a habit of repeat...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
Echoes of the Missile Crisis: US Jets Over Cuba, Royal Navy on Standby

The Mango Kings and a Mortal Fall: The Death of a Billionaire Exposes the Rot Beneath the Dynasty

The death of a fruit baron, worth a billion rupees more than a man might know what to do with, has become a tawdry whodu...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
The Mango Kings and a Mortal Fall: The Death of a Billionaire Exposes the Rot Beneath the Dynasty

The Vienna Gambit: Treason, Transparency, and the Twilight of Intelligence Alliances

Austria’s latest contribution to the theatre of European security is a spy scandal so banal it borders on the operatic. ...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
The Vienna Gambit: Treason, Transparency, and the Twilight of Intelligence Alliances

The Empire Strikes Out: America’s Caribbean Folly

The Caribbean, that turquoise playground of the Western world, has once again become a chessboard for great power muscle...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
The Empire Strikes Out: America’s Caribbean Folly

San Diego Mosque Attack: A Modern Madness or a Reversion to Type?

San Diego – a city of sun, surf, and smug self-regard; a supposed bastion of enlightenment on the American West Coast. Y...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
San Diego Mosque Attack: A Modern Madness or a Reversion to Type?

The Beautiful Game Meets a Brutal Reality: Ebola’s Shadow Over DR Congo’s World Cup Dream

There is a certain, almost grotesque poetry in the headlines we woke to this morning. DR Congo, a nation perpetually tee...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
The Beautiful Game Meets a Brutal Reality: Ebola’s Shadow Over DR Congo’s World Cup Dream

The New Scramble for Africa: Britain’s Hypocrisy Meets Sierra Leone’s Desperation

So the United Kingdom, that bastion of liberal order, now warns of a migrant crisis spillover. As if the empire never sp...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
The New Scramble for Africa: Britain’s Hypocrisy Meets Sierra Leone’s Desperation

The Beautiful Game Meets the Reaper: DR Congo’s World Cup Hopes Lie in Quarantine

For a brief, giddy moment, the Democratic Republic of Congo allowed itself to dream of a World Cup appearance. The Leopa...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
The Beautiful Game Meets the Reaper: DR Congo’s World Cup Hopes Lie in Quarantine

Trump’s Paxton Endorsement: A Masterstroke of Historical Ignorance

In a move that would make Caligula blush, Donald Trump has thrown his weight behind Ken Paxton, the scandal-encrusted At...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
Trump’s Paxton Endorsement: A Masterstroke of Historical Ignorance

Denmark's Whale Failure: A Lesson for a Timid Britain

If there is one thing the British do well, it is attaching ourselves to lost causes. The recent debacle in Denmark, wher...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
Denmark's Whale Failure: A Lesson for a Timid Britain

Trump’s Paxton Endorsement: A Deeper Decay for Texas Trade?

The former president has thrown his weight behind Ken Paxton, a man whose legal baggage would fill a small lorry. For Br...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
Trump’s Paxton Endorsement: A Deeper Decay for Texas Trade?

Of Whales and Wreckage: A Failed Rescue and the Ghost of Empire

The stranding of a 12-metre sperm whale on the shores of Germany's North Sea island of Sylt has, predictably, prompted a...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
Of Whales and Wreckage: A Failed Rescue and the Ghost of Empire

The Heroism of the Hour: A Baby, a Fire, and the Unfashionable Virtue of Duty

Let us not mince words. The story that broke this morning, of a police officer catching an infant dropped from a burning...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
The Heroism of the Hour: A Baby, a Fire, and the Unfashionable Virtue of Duty

Theatrics of a Yellow Star: Israel's Political Farce Reaches New Depths

The spectacle of a senior Israeli minister gloating over handcuffed activists from the Gaza flotilla is a tableau that w...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
Theatrics of a Yellow Star: Israel's Political Farce Reaches New Depths

The Maldives Cave: A Modern Roman Tragedy and the Illusion of Safety

The final bodies of missing Italian tourists have been recovered from a submerged cave in the Maldives, prompting an imm...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
The Maldives Cave: A Modern Roman Tragedy and the Illusion of Safety

Ebola and the Odious Arithmetic of Indifference

The World Health Organisation has delivered its verdict: an effective Ebola vaccine is nine months away. This is not a b...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
Ebola and the Odious Arithmetic of Indifference

Austria’s Disgrace: The Death Rattle of a Neutral State?

Vienna, the city of schnitzel and spies, has once again become a theatre of betrayal. The conviction of Egisto Ott, a fo...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
Austria’s Disgrace: The Death Rattle of a Neutral State?

The Desperate Embrace: What Really Holds China and Russia Together

A leaked UK intelligence paper has laid bare the strategic fragility binding Beijing and Moscow. The document, circulati...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
The Desperate Embrace: What Really Holds China and Russia Together

Bolivia Burns: Another Failed State or the Sound of Historical Reckoning?

The news from Bolivia is grim. Anti-government protests have escalated into violent clashes, and the UK embassy has issu...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
Bolivia Burns: Another Failed State or the Sound of Historical Reckoning?

Trump’s Texas Endorsement: The British Gaze on American Schadenfreude

The ghost of Donald Trump has once again rattled the political chains. His endorsement of Ken Paxton in Texas is not new...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
Trump’s Texas Endorsement: The British Gaze on American Schadenfreude

The Emperor’s New Arctic: Why Trump’s Greenland Envoy Got the Cold Shoulder

So the American president, fresh from his virtual reality golf sessions, dispatches an envoy to Greenland. The message: ...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
The Emperor’s New Arctic: Why Trump’s Greenland Envoy Got the Cold Shoulder

Bolivia Burns: The Ghost of Empire Haunts the Andes Once More

For those of us who chart the slow decline of Western civilisation, Bolivia offers a grim satisfaction. The latest dispa...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
Bolivia Burns: The Ghost of Empire Haunts the Andes Once More

Bolivia Burns: Another Lesson in the Art of Decadence

The news from Bolivia is grim: protests turning violent, anti-government clashes erupting, and the Foreign Office advisi...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
Bolivia Burns: Another Lesson in the Art of Decadence

The New Axis: China and Russia's Blueprint Against the West

The headlines scream of a new entente, a pact of the peripheral powers. But what truly binds Beijing and Moscow is not s...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
The New Axis: China and Russia's Blueprint Against the West

The Emperor and the Autocrat: Xi Jinping Basks in Putin’s Spotlight, a Calculated Snub to the West

Days after Donald Trump’s triumphant return to Washington, Xi Jinping has chosen to stand shoulder to shoulder with Vlad...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
The Emperor and the Autocrat: Xi Jinping Basks in Putin’s Spotlight, a Calculated Snub to the West

The San Diego Mosque Attack: Another Symptom of Our Collective Decadence

A mosque in San Diego has been attacked. The suspects, we are told, have links to the far-right. Across the Atlantic, th...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
The San Diego Mosque Attack: Another Symptom of Our Collective Decadence

Kicking the Can: Can a Football Match Mend a Broken Peninsula?

The Korean Peninsula, a region that has for decades been a byword for frozen conflict and geopolitical stagnation, is on...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
Kicking the Can: Can a Football Match Mend a Broken Peninsula?

The Tragedy of Kabul: When Fathers Sell Their Daughters for Bread

There is a grim poetry to the fall of civilisations. It never arrives with a bang, but with the slow, grinding erosion o...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
The Tragedy of Kabul: When Fathers Sell Their Daughters for Bread

The Baltic Echo of a Decadent Age: Lithuania's Drone Alert and the Theatre of the Modern State

So Lithuania’s leaders scuttle to their bunkers, a drone alert sending a shiver through the Baltic. One might yawn—what ...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
The Baltic Echo of a Decadent Age: Lithuania's Drone Alert and the Theatre of the Modern State

The Trump-Paxton Gambit: A Portrait of American Decadence

Let us not mince words. The endorsement of Ken Paxton by Donald Trump is not a mere political manoeuvre. It is a symptom...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
The Trump-Paxton Gambit: A Portrait of American Decadence

The Bitter Harvest of Hubris: Afghanistan’s Descent into Medieval Misery

We have become accustomed to the word ‘crisis’ rolling off the tongue with a casualness that would have shocked our fore...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
The Bitter Harvest of Hubris: Afghanistan’s Descent into Medieval Misery

The Caesarean Fallacy: Trump’s Grip on the GOP and the Erosion of American Institutions

The defeat of Thomas Massie in Kentucky’s primary is being celebrated in certain circles as evidence of President Trump’...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
The Caesarean Fallacy: Trump’s Grip on the GOP and the Erosion of American Institutions

The Ghislaine Maxwell Farce: How Britain's 'Transparency' Demand Exposes an Empire of Complicity

So the UK government now demands 'full transparency' from the United States regarding Ghislaine Maxwell. How deliciously...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
The Ghislaine Maxwell Farce: How Britain's 'Transparency' Demand Exposes an Empire of Complicity

The New Axis: How Xi and Putin Are Laughing at Our Liberal Fantasies

So the Russian bear and the Chinese dragon have decided to formalise their partnership. Cue the usual pearl-clutching fr...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
The New Axis: How Xi and Putin Are Laughing at Our Liberal Fantasies

The Bruel Affair and the British Right to Shout 'We Told You So'

Patrick Bruel, the French crooner beloved by millions, now faces accusations of sexual assault. He denies them, of cours...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
The Bruel Affair and the British Right to Shout 'We Told You So'