Every week brings a new tool that promises to write faster, analyse deeper or decide quicker than we can. In the energy and engineering world where I have spent more than two decades, the conversation ...

An old American phrase carries an almost accidental political irony: Gone with the wind. In the American imagination, it belongs to another age, another landscape, another South, and to a film that ...

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev addressed the 8th Congress of the New Azerbaijan Party (YAP) in Baku on Friday, the first party congress convened since Azerbaijan fully restored its territorial ...

The struggle for Syria is entering a decisive phase. Israel has moved from intermittent intervention to a sustained military presence in the south, while Damascus is attempting to rebuild a national ...

Rob Jetten has been the Netherlands' prime minister since February. That sentence alone evokes a school play where the teacher is out sick, and the cheekiest boy has put on his tie. There he stands.

Branding and the internationalisation of luxury are massive industries precisely because of their performative, self-congratulatory metaphors, which rarely stop talking. Still, given Bernard Arnault's ...

In international relations, how a country is written about is often as consequential as what it does. Over the past ten days, several pieces appeared in quick succession across major Western outlets ...

In the first part of this essay, Esau was explored not as a biological ancestor of the modern West, but as a civilisational archetype that survived through Rome, Christianity, and eventually the ...

While wearing the hijab and niqab is widespread among Muslims in the West and Russia, authorities in Central Asia have imposed restrictions on religious clothing. Despite having majority Muslim ...