For years, the Kremlin has marketed itself as a dependable security patron for embattled regimes by offering military support, mercenaries, and diplomatic cover without Western-style political conditions. However, recent setbacks in Mali, alongside immense pressure on Russian partners in Syria, Venezuela, Iran, and Cuba reveal that Moscow fares much better at preventing immediate collapse rather than delivering long-term stability. It is not that the Russians necessarily aban

Transnistria's secessionist project is in structural decline. Russian patronage has thinned and public services have deteriorated. The Sheriff conglomerate, the dominant economic force in the region, has reoriented toward European markets in ways that sit uneasily alongside Moscow's strategic preferences. Chișinău, meanwhile, has been methodically exploiting this opening, using customs duties, tax harmonisation, and a nascent reintegration blueprint to draw Transnistria incre

If one thing is a cardinal sin in British politics, perhaps it’s being boring. Plain, unassuming, uninspiring - all words that have been used to describe our current Prime Minister. Keir Starmer is just the latest to suffer from these epithets, which had also been levelled at predecessors such as Theresa May and Gordon Brown. As much as politicians aspire to situate themselves above the masses, relatability and likeability have undeniably become election winners. In attemptin

Mens Rea dominates our perception of juridicality. Best demonstrated by the rise of true crime media, the grisliest cases arise a morbid curiosity in the spectator. Why did they do it? We can delineate the ensuing response into two categories: impulse and calculation. The former leads to a lesser punishment socially and juridically, with the crime being dismissed as the passions overcoming an otherwise just subject. It wasn’t them, it was the moment. Inverting the above formu

Zach Polanski’s invigoration of the UK’s Green Party has been nothing short of a miraculous turnaround, taking what was a fringe political movement for those student-heavy constituencies in Bristol and Brighton to a national superpower, with only a small helping hand from the complete capitulation of the traditional two-party system. The success isn’t unfounded, either. Well-spoken, charismatic and with what appears to be a genuine grasp of democratic socialism, Polanski’s ab