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Ovi is an online eMagazine that offers opinion and comment upon contemporary issues, along with articles on a wide range of subjects: philosophy, poetry, literature, cartoons, art with 20 years of history online.
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An embrace with echoes by Avani Devi

There are diplomatic greetings, and then there are political statements dressed up as greetings.

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#NarendraModi #VladimirPutin #India #russianoil
An embrace with echoes by Avani Devi
There are diplomatic greetings, and then there are political statements dressed up as greetings. Narendra Modi’s warm, almost celebratory welcome to Vladimir Putin in India falls squarely into the …
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December 7, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Eurovision’s identity crisis in a fractured Europe by Melina Barnett

#Eurovision suddenly looks less like a cheerful celebration of unity and more like a battlefield dressed in rhinestones.

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Eurovision’s identity crisis in a fractured Europe by Melina Barnett
The Eurovision Song Contest has always liked to imagine itself as a glitter-soaked island floating above the choppy waters of European politics, a place where key changes matter more than geopoliti…
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December 7, 2025 at 9:55 AM
#eBook: A Psychical Invasion by Algernon Blackwood

In order to grapple with cases of this peculiar kind, he had submitted himself to a long and severe training, at once physical, mental, and spiritual.

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#eBook: A Psychical Invasion by Algernon Blackwood
In order to grapple with cases of this peculiar kind, he had submitted himself to a long and severe training, at once physical, mental, and spiritual. What precisely this training had been, or wher…
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December 7, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Tang & Ram #118 #Cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas

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December 7, 2025 at 9:52 AM
The words that have hidden the poison for too long by Thanos Kalamidas

There is a peculiar talent in modern Western politics, the ability to wrap hatred in silk.

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#FarRight #racism #NigelFarage
The words that have hidden the poison for too long by Thanos Kalamidas
There is a peculiar talent in modern Western politics, the ability to wrap hatred in silk. To dress venom in polite euphemisms. To call a fist a handshake and hope no one notices the bruises. And n…
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December 6, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The convenient villain by Emma Schneider

Europe, in this telling, becomes the geopolitical equivalent of the fussy neighbour who refuses to “just be reasonable” about the noise coming from your backyard flamethrower experiments.

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The convenient villain by Emma Schneider
There is something almost theatrical about the way Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, two men who cannot agree on the colour of the sky unless it flatters them politically, suddenly find common groun…
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December 6, 2025 at 9:48 AM
A collision everyone can see coming by John Kato

It is the inevitable end of years of arrogance meeting years of institutional exhaustion.

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#elonmusk #EuropeanUnion
A collision everyone can see coming by John Kato
There are political collisions that materialize like sudden storms, and there are those that build slowly, thundercloud by thundercloud, until even the most diplomatic optimist can see the lightnin…
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December 6, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Berserk Alert! #079 #Cartoon by Tony Zuvela

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December 6, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Ghosts behind negotiations by John Reid

It is not the details of that conference that matter here, but the underlying ethos, the world as a chessboard belonging to a select few. The world as something owned.

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#DonaldTrump #VladimirPutin
Ghosts behind negotiations by John Reid
There are moments in international politics when the present feels less like a linear progression and more like an elaborate reenactment. The actors change, the costumes update, but the script some…
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December 5, 2025 at 11:14 AM
The non-deal conman’s ambitions by Harry S. Taylor

It is a craving for canonization, a hunger for recognition from the very global establishment he has so often dismissed as weak, corrupt, or elitist.

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#DonaldTrump
The non-deal conman’s ambitions by Harry S. Taylor
There is a particular kind of political theater that plays out when a man who spent decades mastering the optics of triumph suddenly discovers that the world stage refuses to play along. Donald Tru…
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December 5, 2025 at 11:13 AM
The plight of Ndigbo in Nigeria by Tunde Akande

I think all Nigerians will accept that the Igbo face a plight in Nigeria. The Igbo fought a civil war with the rest of Nigeria.

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#nigeria #NDIGBO
The plight of Ndigbo in Nigeria by Tunde Akande
But does the Igbo have any plight in Nigeria? I think all Nigerians will accept that the Igbo face a plight in Nigeria. The Igbo fought a civil war with the rest of Nigeria. Am I qualified to write…
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December 5, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Crossing Cultural and Linguistic Boundaries: International Volunteer Day by Rene Wadlow

5 December has been selected as the International Volunteer Day by a 1985 UN General Assembly resolution.

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Crossing Cultural and Linguistic Boundaries: International Volunteer Day by Rene Wadlow
Founded on the values of solidarity and mutual trust, volunteerism transcends all cultural, linguistic and geographic boundaries.  By giving their time and skills without expectations of material r…
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December 5, 2025 at 11:10 AM
The camp that became a country by Marja Heikkinen

There is a soft, persistent hum inside the Rohingya refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar, a sound stitched together from monsoon winds, human breathing, and the dull throb of waiting.

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#Rohingya #rohingyarefugees
The camp that became a country by Marja Heikkinen
There is a soft, persistent hum inside the Rohingya refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar, a sound stitched together from monsoon winds, human breathing, and the dull throb of waiting. Waiting is its own we…
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December 4, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Embers of a false safety by Mary Long

Last week’s tragedy at Wang Fuk Court in Hong Kong, where at least 151 people lost their lives and dozens more remain missing, has been officially met with arrests.

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#hongkong #hongkongfire
Embers of a false safety by Mary Long
Last week’s tragedy at Wang Fuk Court in Hong Kong, where at least 151 people lost their lives and dozens more remain missing, has been officially met with arrests. Thirteen people, including const…
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December 4, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Pardon as a king-maker by Mia Rodríguez

The timing of his pardon, just days before the Honduran election, was too convenient to be accidental.

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#Honduras #DonaldTrump #pardon
Pardon as a king-maker by Mia Rodríguez
When Juan Orlando Hernández walked out of that West Virginia prison, a man once branded as the architect of a narco-state, it wasn’t just the closing of a sentence, it was the opening of a new chap…
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December 4, 2025 at 10:09 AM
The paranoid mirror by Felix Laursen

The documentary arrives at a moment when Diddy’s mythological glow has cracked like lacquer left in the sun.

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#seandiddycombs #Netflix
The paranoid mirror by Felix Laursen
Netflix’s insistence that its new documentary on Sean “Diddy” Combs produced, with theatrical relish by Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, is “not a hit piece or an act of retribution” has the tonal quality…
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December 4, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Shadows on the waterline by Timothy Davies

There are moments in American foreign policy when an event, small, localized, and almost provincial in its initial framing, illuminates a larger moral universe.

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#PeteHegseth #BoatShoot
Shadows on the waterline by Timothy Davies
There are moments in American foreign policy when an event, small, localized, and almost provincial in its initial framing, illuminates a larger moral universe. The Venezuela boat strikes, spoken o…
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December 3, 2025 at 11:11 AM
A taxing return to tradition by Jemma Norma

When Rachel Reeves stood at the despatch box on Wednesday to deliver her second Budget, she announced what many in Westminster grudgingly call “realism.”

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#UKEconomy #UKBudget #LabourGovernment
A taxing return to tradition by Jemma Norman
When Rachel Reeves stood at the despatch box on Wednesday to deliver her second Budget, she announced what many in Westminster grudgingly call “realism.” The country, she warned, faced a gaping hol…
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December 3, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Cuts, contortions and the cost of being human by Shanna Shepard

...the quiet normalization of cutting care for those who need it most.

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#internationaldayofpersonswithdisabilities
Cuts, contortions and the cost of being human by Shanna Shepard
International Day of Persons with Disabilities Every year on December 3rd, the International Day of Persons with Disabilities arrives with the soft thud of a well-meaning holiday, acknowledged, app…
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December 3, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Screws & Chips #116 #Cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas

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December 3, 2025 at 11:07 AM
How Europe’s center-left flirted with the dark side of immigration politics by Marja Heikkinen

For years, socialists, social democrats, and the broader European center-left have struggled with a paralyzing identity crisis.

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#EuropeanUnion #FarRight
How Europe’s center-left flirted with the dark side of immigration politics by Marja Heikkinen
For years, socialists, social democrats, and the broader European center-left have struggled with a paralyzing identity crisis. Their traditional voters, industrial workers, lower-middle-class fami…
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December 2, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Chains that change shape by Virginia Robertson

The chains have changed shape. They are lighter, quieter, digital, contractual, and in many cases, self-concealing.

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#InternationalDayForTheAbolitionOfSlavery #humantraffickingawareness
Chains that change shape by Virginia Robertson
Why the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery Still Belongs to the 21st Century Every year, the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery appears on the calendar like a stern reminder…
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December 2, 2025 at 9:31 AM
The pilgrim of impossible distances by Edoardo Moretti

And how far is that region, its people, its leaders, its frayed moral nerves, willing to let him travel, metaphorically or otherwise?

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#PopeLeoXIV
The pilgrim of impossible distances by Edoardo Moretti
Pope Leo’s journey to the Middle East, however the Vatican frames it, however his advisers massage the message, feels less like a diplomatic visit and more like a test of human imagination. How far…
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December 2, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Levelling the pitch by Kasie Hewitt

Fame has. Cultural relevance has. Viewership numbers astonishingly have. But economic reality?

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#sports #womenfootball
Levelling the pitch by Kasie Hewitt
For all the confetti-drenched celebrations, the sold-out stadiums, and the well-curated Instagram posts that now accompany women’s football, one truth remains stubbornly immovable: the money hasn’t…
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December 2, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Red ribbons and real reckonings by Shanna Shepard

There’s a day each year when the world briefly lifts its gaze from the next breaking headline to an older, quieter emergency, World HIV/AIDS Day.

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#worldhivaidsday #aidsday
Red ribbons and real reckonings by Shanna Shepard
There’s a day each year when the world briefly lifts its gaze from the next breaking headline to an older, quieter emergency, World HIV/AIDS Day. It arrives every December, polite and persistent, l…
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December 1, 2025 at 9:41 AM