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  • The message from Ukraine was thank you, but…..

    The message from Ukraine was thank you for all your help, thank you for the artillery, thank you for the missile defence systems, but we need tanks. We are fighting not just for Ukraine, but Europe as well. We are fighting to defend the free world from Putin, President Zelensky argued in a speech to…

  • Ukraine

    Putin is tactically clever, he has moved his country onto a war footing after the special operation failed. He constantly adapts, out manoeuvring and moving the Ukrainian war into something other than a territorial reach to far. The initial plan failed because much to the detriment of his own beliefs that President Zelensky would flee…

  • Lost voices, blank sheets of paper and umbrellas.

    Symbolism has taken the voice away from writers and artists, each and every demonstration in Hong Kong and China has been challenged by security laws, but voices such as Ai Weiwei, or writers such as Zu Zhiyong are either in exile or prison. Symbols have become so important, the blank sheet of paper or the…

  • Germany’s new beginning

    Germany’s chancellor Olaf Scholz argues that to avoid a new cold war in a multi-polar era, will be dependent on a policy of rebuilding Germany’s armed forces and taking a multilateral approach towards the world. But the resounding argument is determined by resources fed into concerns of whether Germany can take a lead in Europe,…

  • Europe immigration

    There are 447.2 million inhabitants living in the European Union, 23.7 million non European Union citizens and there were 37.5 million people born outside the European Union, respectively 5.3 percent of the European Unions population and 8.4 percent of all European Union inhabitants. The European Union argues that the share of the foreign born population…

  • Sweden’s move to the right

    Sweden a country known for openness transparency and gender equality, has changed, there is a new populist government that has opened the door to the far right.  There is an image of Sweden that it is a socialist utopia, but there is something else, it is rebelling against immigrants, taxes and change has come from…