Category: Political Satire, International Affairs, US Politics, Democracy and Autocracy, Op-Ed

Satirical illustration of men in business suits kneeling barefoot in snow before golden gates, with the White House and a brightly lit cage-fighting octagon visible on the lawn beyond, bunting on the fence and banknotes drifting down like snowflakes.

Canossa on the South Lawn

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In 1077 a king knelt three days in the snow at Canossa, and it worked. Nine and a half centuries on, the pope-king turns eighty behind a cage on the South Lawn while the pretenders queue: a trillionaire, a Crown Prince, and a deputy sheriff paying by direct debit. Urban Wronski on the new Investiture Controversy.

Split image evoking 1953 Tehran and 2026 missile strikes over Iran, with declassified document text bleeding across both halves.

The Monster They Made (Part 1)

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The coup did not sow the seeds for the Islamic Revolution. It constructed the machinery. SAVAK liquidated every secular democrat who might have led a modern Iran. The mosque was left standing because it was the one institution the secret police found too difficult to penetrate. Every morning the Australian media tells us the bombing is regrettable but the regime is monstrous. It does not explain who built the regime.