Buckingham Palace’s decision to strip a royal of titles is not a scandal — it is a system recalibrating itself in public view. What this moment teaches us about ethics, identity, and institutional evolution.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s reinstatement of restrictions on gender-inclusive passports has reignited a quiet crisis of belonging. It is not simply about travel. It is about who decides the architecture of identity—and whether selfhood must pass through permission.
In a multipolar world, power and influence are no longer separate. Their interdependence defines global politics—reshaping alliances, narratives, and the logic of survival.
AI is becoming the ultimate political weapon — not through violence, but through persuasion. As synthetic media blurs truth, democracy faces a new cold war: one fought through algorithms, attention, and belief.
When forty-three laboratory monkeys escaped from a U.S. biomedical research facility this year, headlines treated it as absurd news. It wasn’t. It was a parable — of a civilisation that still mistakes cruelty for curiosity and control for knowledge.
