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Tit-for-tat: Tel-Aviv after an airstrike from Iran last week.

Iran is not Venezuela

It is easier to start wars than to end them

Another draught found unfinished at a bar. Photo: Ilan Godfrey

Top investigative photojournalist closes the case on Castle Lite’s claim

The month-long investigation concludes with a person who passed higher grade math confirming the result. Photojournalist Ilan Godfrey’s exhaustive investigation into which…

Unfinished draught captured in low light after 9pm. Photo: Ilan Godfrey

Top investigative journalist leaves no stone unturned while investigating claim by Castle Lite

With the same dogged determination to uncover the truth that characterised his investigations in the mining industry and current affairs, Ilan Godfrey has been checking the claim…

Flags fly at half mast outside the United Healthcare corporate headquarters on December 4, 2024 in Minnetonka, Minnesota. United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot dead on the street in New York City before he was to attend the company’s annual investors meeting.  (Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

Motive is the most important part of UnitedHealthcare CEO’s murder

The misguided media frenzy around the shooting of Brian Thompson tells us a lot about the world we live in

King Charles’s coronation has highlighted just how wealthy the Windsor family is. Charles is allegedly worth over £2 billion. (Photo by Alastair Grant – WPA Pool/Getty Images)

The purpose of the royals? To show us money doesn’t make you happy

We finally have an answer to what props up the wealthy empire

Industrial pipes release gray dirty smoke into the sky, air and environmental pollution, environmental problems. Toxic emissions. Photo: Getty Images

Russia’s war, climate change, the collapse of the power grid — 2022 was no picnic but …

There’s reason to believe our pizza will have more cheese on it this year

Queen Elizabeth kept her opinions to herself and quietly cleaned up the mess. (Photo by Annice Lyn/Getty Images)

The queen got on with the job of serving — something everyone should do

Queen Elizabeth kept her opinions to herself and quietly cleaned up the mess

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss arrives to attend a Tory Leadership hustings event on July 21, 2022 in London, England. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Truss is the Tory Corbyn: How the Conservative Party will destroy itself

Liz Truss has the support of 62% of the Conservative Party members who anoint the next prime minister

It’s easy to leave Ukraine if you have a foreign passport, but if you’re a male citizen of combat age, attempting to cross the border is fraught with danger. (Photo by FADEL SENNA/AFP via Getty Images)

‘Cannon meat’: The men of combat age stuck in Ukraine

If you’re a male citizen of combat age, attempting to cross the border is fraught with danger.

The invasion of Ukraine will destroy any idea that Russia is liberating Ukraine, or that Ukrainians are in the grip of a criminal dictatorship.   (Photo by Sergey BOBOK / AFP) (Photo by SERGEY BOBOK/AFP via Getty Images)

A morning in Ukraine: Ruined apartment blocks, rubble in the streets

The invasion of Ukraine will destroy any idea that Russia is liberating Ukraine, or that Ukrainians are in the grip of a criminal dictatorship.

Refugees coming from Ukraine walk at the Ukrainian-Romanian border in Siret on March 02, 2022. – Refugees from Ukraine flock into Romania to escape Russia’s invasion — and avoid massive jams at the Polish border. (Photo by Daniel MIHAILESCU / AFP) (Photo by DANIEL MIHAILESCU/AFP via Getty Images)

Ukrainian refugees cross the Tisza River to seek sanctuary in Romania

The town of Solotvyno, just across the border from Romania, is almost deserted and strangers are interrogated about possibly being Russian Army ‘forward scouts’

The Sighetu Marmației border crossing between Romania and Ukraine.
Photo: John Davenport

Will Moldova be next to fall to Putin’s imperial ambitions?

Occupying the pro-Western Republic of Moldova would give Russia control over the entire north coast of the Black Sea

Hungary, Tiszabecs: A woman fleeing war and Russian attack from Ukraine with a little girl crosses the border into Hungary in the Hungarian municipality of Tiszabecs. The border between Hungary and Ukraine is about 140 kilometers long. (Marton Monus/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Impressions on my way to the Ukranian border

A South African writer shares insights along his journey as he tries to to enter Ukraine

MANCHESTER, ENGLAND – JULY 01:  Prince Andrew, Duke of York, attends a commemoration service at Manchester Cathedral marking the 100th anniversary since the start of the Battle of the Somme. July 1, 2016 in Manchester, England. Services are being held across Britain and the world to remember those who died in the Battle of the Somme which began 100 years ago on July 1st 1916. Armies of British and French soldiers fought against the German Empire leading to over one million lives being lost.  (Photo by Christopher Furlong – WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Prince Andrew’s settlement is all about the PR and nothing else

A lengthy trial in which Andrew would have spent huge amounts of time on the stand has been avoided, albeit at gigantic financial cost.

US President elect Donald Trump.   (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images/AFP)

Trump unlikely to settle for golf

A narrow victory will mean that the election results won’t be settled anytime soon

WASHINGTON – MARCH 03:  U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg smiles during a photo session with photographers at the U.S. Supreme Court March 3, 2006 in Washington DC.  (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

The bloody battle to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Neither side will hesitate for a second to do anything to win

A quick trek to ancient Egypt during lockdown

Well, the pharaonic Voortrekker Monument to be precise for John Davenport

We are a social species, and our brains need interaction. And while it is hard for everyone, it is also much harder for some of us than others. (Marga/Pexels)

We all want ‘normal’ back, but we need to hang on a little longer

We’re a socially inclined species, meaning it’s tough to say at home and forego interaction with friends. But this is the one of the best things we can do to prevent the further…

Dying to breathe: Many of the priority areas exceeded South Africa’s national ambient air quality standards,
often in regions with high concentrations of vulnerable people. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

We sacrifice for Covid, so we can fight global warming

We just have to ask ourselves if we are as willing to sacrifice to save our grandchildren as we have shown ourselves to be when it came to trying to save older people, the sick…

It may be that the most important lesson this pandemic has to teach us is that we don’t control nearly as many things as we like to think we do.

Covid-19’s lesson: The stars bandy us about in which way pleases them

Science, education, technological advancement and wealth made us feel we are protected and have power over life, but we can’t control everything