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Self-Defence and Acceptable Murder: Netanyahu Dreams of Regime Change

Nigeria, June 17 -- These are the sorts of things that tend to be discussed in bunkered facilities and grimy locker rooms. Now, very much in the open and before the presses, the head of state of one c... Read More


Condemning the Right to Self Defence: Iran's Retaliation and Israel's Privilege

Nigeria, June 16 -- There is a throbbing complaint among Western powers, including those in the European Union and the United States. Iran is not playing by the rules. Instead of accepting with dutifu... Read More


Rogue States and Thought Crimes: Israel Strikes Iran

Nigeria, June 15 -- Pre-emptive attacks in international law are rarely justified. The threat must evince itself through an obvious intent to inflict injury, evidence preparations that show the threat... Read More


Bad Old Habits: Israel Backs Palestinian Militias in Gaza

Nigeria, June 7 -- It is one of those things that should be recorded and replayed for eternity: Israel, in order to guard some misplaced sense of security, happily backs Palestinian groups in order to... Read More


The Inevitable Souring: Elon Musk Falls Out with Donald Trump

Nigeria, June 6 -- Sandpit politics is rarely edifying and grown toddlers taking their fists to each other is unlikely to interest. But when they feature US President Donald Trump and the world's weal... Read More


Off to War We Go: Starmer's Strategic Defence Review

Nigeria, June 3 -- Unpopular governments always retreat to grounds of lazy convenience. Instead of engaging in exercises of courage, they take refuge in obvious distractions. And there is no more obvi... Read More


Thieves in the Kitchen: The Stealing of Recipes

Nigeria, June 2 -- Recipe author Nagi Maehashi, unmoved by her own numbing banality, is peeved. Her target: Penguin books and author Brooke Bellamy. Her accusation: the apparent copying of recipes for... Read More


Roads to War: The EU's Security Action for Europe Fund

Nigeria, May 29 -- As the world was readying for the Second World War, the insightful humane Austrian author Stefan Zweig made the following glum observation: "Openly and flagrantly, certain countries... Read More