Corruption in the Family
Qatargate | Socialists at the European Parliament | Lara Wolters | Manon Aubry | Gaslighting | Vindication | Jail and compassion | Truth to power | Due diligence | Malaysia | Bahrain | Philippines | Boskalis | Conservatives bullying NGOs
Mars Returns
David Rowe | A flying bullet | Ariana Reines | Raimundas Malasauskas | Ukraine's sacrifice | Leopards | Liberal Democracy | Violence | Immanual Kant | Robert Kagan | 2024 | Mars & Venus | Nationalist democracy | Long vs short war | EU accession
Ethics After Qatargate
Qatar scandal | Blame game | Alberto Alemanno | Foreign interference | NGOs | Bad apples | Roberta Metsola | Ursula von der Leyen | Independent oversight of ethics | Party hacks | Quantum leap
Bad Karma
Rana Ayyub | Yoga | Incredible India | Online violence | Hindu Nationalism | RSS | Narendra Modi | The Gujarat Violence | Nero | Von der Leyen | Bezos in India | Russia | Wilful indifference | Agnes Jongerius | Labour standards | Visas | Promises, promises
The Decolonisers
Josep Borrell and the jungle | Dylan Mathews | Shada Islam | EU indifference | Ukraine | Double standards | Degan Ali | Pakistan | Climate reparations | Robtel Pailey | The white gaze of development | Building resilience | Power | Fear about funding
How Europe Helped Normalise Giorgia Meloni
Praising Mussolini | Lauding Putin | Russian influence | Airbrushing Meloni | European Conservatives and Reformists | Trumpists | Berlusconi's heritage | Vox and ultraconservatives | The Fiamme Tricolore | Deviance | Ethnic substitution | Eroding the EU
Model Minority Myths
Stereotypes | Invisible minority | Little banana | Kiffe Ta Race | Waiting for Europe | Brice Hortefeux | Mixed couples | Attacks on Asians after Covid | Importing wokism | Pap Ndiaye | Meritocracy
Bianca’s Story Revisited
Backsliding on abortion | Bianca’s story | Religion and medicine in Romania | Ultraconservatives and Austrian democracy | Croatian hospitals | Waiting periods in Germany | Criminalisation persists | Helena Dalli on equal protection | Macron and the ECFR
The Curious Case of the Racial Muslim
Sahar Aziz | Shada Islam | Brussels So White | Islamophobia phobia | Anti-Muslim Hatred | Impact of 9/11 | Collective guilt | Bloodlines in Europe | Colonial legacies | Whiteness over time
Bonjour, Vladimir
Emmanuel Macron | Guy Lagache | Engagement and appeasement | Putin and ice hockey | Ukraine and Nato | All is not lost | Putin's lies | WWI | Boris Johnson | Les Anglo-Saxons | Oil and gas | Marie-Antoinette