Putin started hinting heavily that he might use nuclear weapons if other countries intervened to prevent his conquest of Ukraine on the very first day of the war.

Giorgia Meloni, the hard-right populist politician who is likely to win that election, rejects any comparison with that ugly past.

Maybe he is just trading on that reputation now, and he really is bluffing this time, but there is no point in following him down that rabbit hole.

 As the warming proceeds and the world’s remaining ice melts, sea level rise is going to become a grave problem for every country with a coastline.

His thesis would be more convincing if most Yemenis and Afghans and almost all Syrians were not white.

He may even believe that (he doesn’t get out much), but either way the die is cast. In order to overthrow the regime that the younger generation now reject, they will have to fight it.

Musk sort of realised that buying Twitter was a mistake after his initial enthusiasm died down

The Pope means well, but he is barking up the wrong tree.

However, this period lasts, on average, for about three decades and then growth falls back to the familiar old 2%-3% annually.

So much for the philosophy. What actually happened at Sharm-al-Sheikh?

Kyiv should settle for the best deal it can get while it still has the advantage militarily.

The country is going through a bad patch, but its people have concluded that respect for the constitution is good, while coups and dictators are bad.

The point he was making was that the future South Africa that would have delighted him in 1984, but appalled him in 1994, was exactly the same country.