Associate Editor, Arts + Culture Editor
Jonathan Este spent 20 years as a reporter, columnist and editor on The Independent as well as The Australian. He joins The Conversation from the Media Alliance in Australia where he specialised in media law and policy and the digital revolution in journalism.
Ukraine recap: Putin’s nuclear sabre-rattling becomes more ominous
Sep 29, 2024 10:18 am UTC| Insights & Views
In recent months, Vladimir Putin and his proxies have been foreshadowing a change in Russias nuclear doctrine. This is the set of rules that spells out when and how his country might resort to the use of its nuclear...
Gaza update: US politics and the fate of Palestinians increasingly bound up together
Aug 24, 2024 07:56 am UTC| Insights & Views
It would be a brave or foolhardy analyst who presumes to predict the outcomes of the talks which continue in Doha. But the fate of Gaza and its 2 million inhabitants as well as the 109 remaining Israeli hostages being...
Gaza update: Hamas appoints new leader as Middle East braces for more violence
Aug 09, 2024 18:32 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Iran is going to launch a retaliatory strike against Israel for the dual assassinations of Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyeh, on July 31 and Hezbollahs number two, Fuad Shukr, just hours before. The only questions are when,...
Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the US Congress and receives a very mixed reception: expert Q&A
Jul 27, 2024 12:54 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Israels prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, travelled to Washington this week for a series of high-level meetings. At the invitation of the Republican majority in the House of Representatives, he addressed a joint session...
Gaza update: ‘vintage’ Netanyahu in Washington, Harris stays away
Jul 27, 2024 12:53 pm UTC| Insights & Views
As the violence continued to rage in Gaza and on the West Bank and Israeli protesters made their anger at their government felt on the streets of Tel Aviv Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Washington for what was always...
Ukraine recap: the bleak prospect of a Trump-Vance White House
Jul 21, 2024 16:26 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Ukraine will no longer exist by 2034, or so says former Russian president and Kremlin attack dog, Dmitry Medvedev. Medvedev didnt say so in as many words. But, reflecting recently on the outgoing Nato leader Jens...
Gaza update: Hamas can’t be destroyed says IDF as Netanyahu eyes war with Hezbollah
Jun 28, 2024 07:50 am UTC| Insights & Views
Fighting continues in central and southern Gaza, as the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) continue to encounter resistance from units of Hamas fighters, despite a recent assessment by the Israeli government that the intense...