Hypersensitivity forces beauty into a politically-correct straitjacket. It is hardly surprising that such straitjackets kill beauty, for what cannot breathe, cannot live.

What Putin has seen is this collapse of courage in the West, an inability to protect itself from external existential threats and a peculiar, weak slavishness to liberal culture, whilst it erodes the values of traditional societies.

The resignation of the managing director of documenta may be seen as a sacrifice to calm the waters, but this requires the media to ignore the countless other scandals taking place at the art exhibition.

Despite clear evidence to the contrary, politicians continue to misrepresent the source of Spain’s fires as the consequence of climate change.

The flagship measure is a ban on Russian gold imports, to align EU sanctions with those of the G7, which decided to sanction Russian gold last month.

The debt relief comes as Ukraine is facing $1.2 billion of debt payments due at the beginning of September, and a serious shortfall in cash flow—due to the Russian invasion that began at the end of February.