Adriel Kasonta, at The Blogs

Mar 24, 2022, 4:14 PM

Roman Abramovich and the ugly case of Aryanization

Chelsea soccer club owner Roman Abramovich sits in his box before their English Premier League soccer match against Sunderland at Stamford Bridge stadium in London, December 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

What has unfolded in Ukraine almost a month ago is a great tragedy both for the Ukrainians and Russians, with the current conflict bringing the worst and best in people. The saddest part is that its consequences go far beyond...

Jun 2, 2020, 3:31 PM

The US ‘original sin’ will be its undoing

A protester wears a US flag bandana during a protest over the death of George Floyd in Los Angeles, Saturday, May 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

‘Remember, race and politics are the most inconvenient topics in the modern world' - I was only 14 when my grandmother gave me a stark warning about this, she also added that she had ‘faith in me to be...

May 24, 2020, 7:27 PM

From the Black Death to COVID-19, the Chinese became the new Jews

Representation of a massacre of the Jews in 1349. (Wikipedia)

As the great French political philosopher and historian Alexis de Tocqueville famously noticed: “History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies”. Considering modern man’s zeal for historical knowledge in a rapid consumerist culture...

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Adriel Kasonta is a London-based political risk consultant and lawyer. He is the founder of AK Consultancy and former chairman of the International Affairs Committee at Bow Group, the oldest conservative think tank in the UK.

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