Peter Bach
The Beautiful Game Meets the Border Guard
June 12, 2026Under the Flight Paths
June 11, 2026On Seeing Will Self Again
June 5, 2026The Invention of Cultural Intelligence
June 2, 2026Watching Ebola Return
May 19, 2026Only Four Weeks to Go
May 12, 2026Picnic on a Receding Glacier
May 8, 2026Between Order and Upheaval
May 6, 2026Buckingham Palace’s Draft Folder (Do Not Send)
April 29, 2026Twilight of the Strongmen
April 17, 2026The Ballroom and the Brink
April 15, 2026Don’t Forget Ukraine
April 13, 2026When America Becomes Its President
April 8, 2026A Terrifying Yield of Control
April 3, 2026The UK, Repackaged for US Culture Wars
April 2, 2026Conrad, Konrad, and the Uses of the Sea
March 27, 2026Where the Horses Are Still Running
March 25, 2026Choosing Life: Ukraine’s Quiet Work of Healing War Trauma
March 20, 2026Kerouac Reconsidered
March 15, 2026The Long War: Iran’s Oldest Strategy
March 13, 2026The Dubai Decompression Loop
March 10, 2026Escalation on the Durand Line
March 2, 2026Iran and Ukraine: Narrow World
February 25, 2026People Turn to Poison Quick
February 18, 2026Megaphones Made of Silence: Ai Weiwei at Odds With Power
February 11, 2026A Wave of Defections
February 4, 2026Diary of Mechanical Benediction
February 2, 2026Britain’s Unions Are Back, Just Not the Way You Expected
January 29, 2026Diary of Conversations at Altitude
January 23, 2026South Sudan After the Pilgrimage: When Moral Attention Isn’t Enough
January 21, 2026Diary of Unexpected Continuities
January 16, 2026Protest, Pressure, and the Risk of Misreading Iran
January 14, 2026Europe’s Strategic Autonomy Problem is No Longer Abstract
January 9, 2026Is Greenland Next?
January 7, 2026The Abbey and the Airbase
January 1, 2026The Stranger Who Didn’t Do Christmas
December 25, 2025War and Peace in a Post-European America
December 21, 2025Melancholia in the Bloodstream: Europe, America, and the Weight of Misunderstanding
December 17, 2025Khan in the Dark
December 12, 2025What I Don’t Know About Politics (And Why It Might Not Matter)
December 10, 2025The Crack in the Sky
December 4, 2025Ashes of Another Kind
December 1, 2025Where Labour, Capital, and a National Institution Still Collide
November 26, 2025You Do It to Yourself
November 19, 2025A Small Kingdom at the Top of the World
November 14, 2025Why I’d Still Trust a BBC Producer Over the President
November 13, 2025Starmerama: When Governance is Not Enough
November 6, 2025