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: the approach of 'General Winter' and what it means for the conflict
Oct 31, 2022 08:51 am UTC| Insights & Views
The next couple of weeks is likely to see Ukraines weather taking a turn for the worse, bringing first rain and then, as temperatures plummet, increasingly heavy snowfalls. General Winter has always had an important part...
Oct 21, 2022 06:12 am UTC| Politics
Having suffered several weeks of setbacks in the field, Russia appears to have renewed its assaults on Ukraines major cities, mainly via missile and drone attacks. Despite protestations to the contrary from Kremlin ally...
Ukraine recap: Russia targets civilians as the world argues about how to end the war
Oct 16, 2022 13:38 pm UTC| Politics
Ever since Vladimir Putin sent Russian troops across the border into Ukraine, the role of the UN as global problem solver has come under scrutiny. Any attempts for meaningful action by the security council are immediately...
Ukraine Recap: grain and gas were problems the west should have seen coming
Aug 06, 2022 10:18 am UTC| Politics
There was a perceptible sense of relief on Monday when the Razoni, a Sierra Leone-flagged vessel, left the port of Odesa with 26,000 tons of grain bound for Tripoli in Lebanon. This was the first ship out of the port city...
Ukraine Recap: Putin goes in search of friends while his ministers threaten his enemies
Jul 23, 2022 16:16 pm UTC| Politics
Its childish, I realise, but I experienced a frisson of amused pleasure on watching the video of Vladimir Putin pacing up and down for nearly a minute while waiting for the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, to show...
Ukraine Recap: Russian threats, Europe frets and China rises
Jul 18, 2022 07:00 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Vladimir Putins imperial ambitions in Ukraine, dressed up for domestic consumption as a military operation to de-Nazify the country, have sent a shiver of apprehension through the rest of the region. In Moldova,...
Ukraine recap: why words are important – and truth must triumph over propaganda
Apr 23, 2022 08:29 am UTC| Insights & Views
Its eight weeks since the Russian military rolled across the border into Ukraine, telling the world that this was just a special military operation aiming to free an oppressed people from what Vladimir Putin called a gang...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects