Thoughts on the Ukraine and Israel conflicts
Monday, 16 October 2023
War is not a football match.
War is a very rational act.
The object of war is to win.
Kanthan's Blog
The back story to the Russian 'coup'
Sunday, 25 June 2023
…it ended with a whimper rather than a bang. Wagner fighters agreed to halt their advance and return to their base in exchange for a guarantee of their safety.
The Saudi-Iran deal — 10 things you need to know
Friday, 10 March 2023
China, Saudi Arabia, and Iran issued a joint communique announcing normalising of diplomatic relations between the Saudis and the Iranians. This is huge.
A 10 point history of nuclear arms treaties between the US and Russia
Wednesday, 1 March 2023
Vladimir Putin announced that Moscow was suspending participation in a treaty with the United States limits their numbers of strategic nuclear warheads.
Ten things you need to know about Nigeria's upcoming elections
Thursday, 23 February 2023
Nigeria goes to the polls this weekend. Here are ten things you need to know about the issues facing Africa’s most populous country:
Monetising the blue ticks on Twitter
Tuesday, 1 November 2022
How much would you pay to be verified and get a blue check mark on Twitter?
Time to buy oil from Russia?
Wednesday, 10 August 2022
The biggest threat to our economic growth is our skyrocketing energy costs. Buying oil from Russia could lower that cost by 20 percent.
Today is a good day to talk about nuclear war
Saturday, 6 August 2022
On this day in 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima in Japan. Between 70,000–80,000 people were killed by the blast and resultant firestorm.
Remembering Dr Aadil Moerat
Tuesday, 2 August 2022
...on the evening of 21 January 1998 at around 6 pm, three armed men walked into the packed waiting room of Dr Aadil Moerat’s surgery in the township of Gugulethu, Cape Town. Minutes later, Dr Moerat was dead.
Measuring the cost of justice
Friday, 1 July 2022
Laura Kövesi is the European Union’s head of Public Prosecution.