Editorials

Most reporting on the Artemis II space mission around the Moon has focused on shallow human interest storylines, such as the status of the toilets, when the much more important story is about the battle to control future mining, energy production, exports, governance, and weapons deployment from space, a battle that will be as important as any other in settling the balance of power between China and America on Earth.

Politics

MK wants to make you a serf in your own country.

Politics

The Minister of Basic Education, Siviwe Gwarube, has signed off on a draft new history curriculum that takes a starkly anti-Western and anti-capitalist approach to global events, narrows the minds of South Africa’s children, and seeks to cultivate the kind of militancy that threatens the future stability of the country.

Editorials

Western media coverage has painted the Iran war to date as an apocalyptic event that has humiliated America and exposed its leadership as mad and its military as weak, while Iran has emerged strengthened and ascendant, amid markets and currency wreckage, and soaring energy prices that have driven the world to the brink of chaos.

Global

Reform UK has taken the lead in the latest UK voting intention poll, underlining the continued fragmentation of the country’s political landscape, and mounting pressure on the governing Labour Party.