C J Polychroniou

  • On a catastrophic path

    Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has seen the return of state-on-state warfare on European soil for the first time since the end of the Second World...

  • Climate catastrophe

    The first United Nations Scientific Conference on the Environment, also known as the First Earth Summit, was held in Stockholm, Sweden, from June...

  • There is still hope

    Unfortunately, despite being touted as ‘our last best hope’, the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow ended up being just another big flop, thus...

  • Unavoidable collapse

    A cursory glance at the state of today’s world will give pause to anyone wishing to celebrate humanity’s progress. In fact, evidence abounds...

  • Rescuing the planet

    As things stand, the world now faces two existential crises that threaten organized human life as we know it, and life in general on planet Earth....

  • Beyond Brexit

    The future of the European Union is surely in doubt. Brexit and Catalonia are the most glaring recent examples of the irrepressibly dynamic forces...

  • A nation for sale

    One January day about year and a half ago, the coalition of the Radical Left came to power in Greece riding a wave of popular support fuelled by...

  • Breaking free from the EU

    The European debt crisis of 2010, which still has many peripheral nations in its grip and has led to what appears to be a permanent state of fiscal...

  • Why care about the leak?

    Panama has always been one of the best tax havens in the world – both during and after the reign of General Manuel Noriega – and Mossack...