BEN MORGAN – Russia needs a victory this spring but probably won’t get one!
Russia needs a win — urgently. But Ukraine is grinding them down, Europe is waking up, and Putin may be running out of road faster than anyone expected.
Russia needs a win — urgently. But Ukraine is grinding them down, Europe is waking up, and Putin may be running out of road faster than anyone expected.

Iran threatens to close it. Trump says he’ll close it first. Oil spikes. Markets panic. And somehow this is meant to be strategy?

Aid is being slashed. Millions could die. And somehow, governments are still finding billions for war. What exactly are we prioritising here?

Trump starts redefining war crimes. New Zealand starts arguing about culture wars. If that doesn’t alarm you, it should.

Bend the logic hard enough and anything looks defensible. That’s the trick. That’s also the tell.

It’s not a race between AI, climate collapse and war. It’s a pile-up — and we’re already in it.

Thousands marched. Not just against war — but against New Zealand’s silence while it happens.

Six weeks. That’s all it took to turn a war into a humiliation.

Criticising Israel isn’t antisemitism. So why is that accusation being used to shut this argument down?
Trump swaggered into conflict pretending to be a strongman and stumbled out handing Iran leverage, chaos in the Gulf and a shudder through the global economy.