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The West is Playing Chess, While Russia and China are Playing Checkers
Events over the past two months have flipped the perception of the geopolitical world on its head, says CJ Werleman

Our Future is Being Gambled On by a Government in Blissful Ignorance
‘A’ level students Thomas Heath and Tom Marshall expose the Department for Education’s data-free approach to the impact of COVID-19 on learning

Putin’s Gulag-Based Empire of Abduction, Deportation, and Modern Slavery
Brad Blitz and Alexandra Lewis explain how Russia’s mass deportation of Ukrainians is not an accident, but central to the ‘Ru.Lag’ – the Kremlin’s new form of political and economic control

Macron and the Long March of the French Far-Right
Radical right-wing forces in France will not be buried by a second Macron presidency, says Shafi Musaddique

Are the Royals Trapped in a Gilded Cage – Or Is Britain?
Is the Royal Family trapped by Britain's past or is the problem our inability to conceive of a social order without monarchy?

Laura Kuenssberg’s Time as BBC Political Editor has been a Catastrophic, Systemic Failure
Thanks to managers at the BBC, the outgoing Kuenssberg repeated lies rather than challenging them, says former BBC journalist Patrick Howse

EXCLUSIVE Weak Oil: The Looming Collapse of Putin’s Petro Dictatorship
The Kremlin needs a permanent state of hybrid warfare in Europe to stop a global energy system transformation that will unravel Russia’s oligarchic fossil fuel economy

Sunak’s Russia Spin Shows He’s No Different to Johnson
The Chancellor is debasing public standards and ethics in exactly the same way as his boss, argues Rachel Morris
Boris Johnson’s Partygate Lies Have Brought Disgrace to his Office
The Prime Minister repeatedly lied to Parliament and the public about the lawbreaking that took place in his own house, reports Adam Bienkov
Ukraine Changes Everything: The Collapse of Boris Johnson’s Brexit World Order
Professor Chris Painter sees Putin’s invasion of his neighbour as a major turning point in history, with the values of multilateralism and an activist state set to break the spell of Johnsonian politics
‘Close to Useless in Every Way’: The Government is Pursuing Economic and Climate Disaster
Thomas Perrett reviews Rishi Sunak’s Spring Statement and how it affects the UK’s climate change commitments