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Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Psychology

 by Jaffa Levy

Why Treating AI as a Friend or Confidant Is a Dangerous Mistake and How It Can Lead, in the Worst Cases, to Suicide

Conversational AI is no longer just answering questions. It is shaping belief, identity, and decisions in moments of vulnerability. As people turn to chatbots for therapy, relationship advice, and emotional support, the risk is no longer theoretical. When fluent language nudges users toward despair, self harm, or even suicide, the absence of accountability stops being a technical issue and becomes a public safety failure.

Defence / Iran / Israel / United States

 by Jaffa Levy

War with Iran: Does Anyone Still Have the Power to Stop a Process Already in Motion?

Military deployments, diplomatic signalling, and regional positioning around Iran are no longer isolated acts of deterrence. They are forming a process that advances even in the absence of a formal decision. This essay examines how force posture, political sunk costs, and incompatible assumptions may already be constraining the ability of any actor to stop escalation once it begins.

Commentry / China / Journalism / Opinion

 by Jaffa Levy

When Economic Analysis Becomes Narrative: A Case Study in China Doom-Writing

A widely shared analysis claims China has “missed its chance” and is locked into economic decline. Even accepting its data, the conclusion does not follow. This rebuttal examines how selective metrics, historical analogy, and irreversibility claims are used to turn ambiguity into certainty—and why that reasoning fails under scrutiny.

BRICS / Economics / India

 by Jaffa Levy

The Exit Ramp: How Countries Are Reducing Their Dependence on the Dollar

The dollar still dominates global finance, but states are no longer willing to rely on a single set of payment pathways. From instant domestic systems to new cross-border settlement platforms, a parallel financial infrastructure is taking shape — less about replacing the dollar than about reducing dependence on it.

Defence / Russia / Ukraine

 by Jaffa Levy

Ukraine’s Donbas Army Faces a Choice Between Withdrawal and Collapse

Russia now controls most of Donbas. What remains is a fortified Ukrainian army compressed into Kramatorsk and Sloviansk and sustained by just two vulnerable supply routes. Rather than storming these fortresses, Russian forces are methodically degrading the roads and rail lines that keep them alive. The decisive question is no longer territory, but whether Ukraine withdraws in time.

Defence / Iran / Middle East / United States

 by Jaffa Levy

At America’s Middle East Air Hub, the Machinery of Escalation Is Quietly Assembling

At Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, the largest American military installation in the Middle East, subtle changes are underway. US fighter aircraft have deployed forward, an aircraft carrier has entered the region, and logistics activity has surged. The evidence points to preparation for conflict with Iran, while stopping short of a decision to fight.

Diplomacy / Britain / China

 by Jaffa Levy

Two Classrooms, Two Narratives. Why Britain and China Do Not Hear Each Other

Britain and China do not disagree because of tone or diplomacy. They disagree because they are educated into different histories. Britain teaches continuity and inheritance. China teaches rupture and coercion. When British officials visit Beijing, the signals London believes it is sending are not the signals China receives. This gap explains why the same gestures feel reassuring in Britain and provocative in China.

Diplomacy / Britain / China

 by Jaffa Levy

Why Kemi Badenoch Thinks Britain Still Has Leverage Over China

Kemi Badenoch’s attack on Keir Starmer’s China visit rests on a deeper assumption rarely examined in British politics: that Britain is still entitled to leverage over China. This article rebuts her claims point by point, showing how history, power, and reality no longer support that belief.

Defence / Britain / Law / Middle East

 by Jaffa Levy

Britain Left Its ISIS Detainees including Shamima Begum in Kurdish Camps. Now Those Camps Are Collapsing

Britain and its allies left thousands of Islamic State detainees in Kurdish run camps as a temporary solution to a politically toxic problem. Now that system is breaking down. As Western governments engage Syria’s new leadership and Kurdish control erodes, the contradiction at the heart of detention by remembering is becoming impossible to ignore.

China / Defence

 by Jaffa Levy

Xi Jinping, Corruption, and the Chain of Command Inside China’s PLA

Xi Jinping’s removal of senior PLA generals Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli has fuelled speculation about power struggles inside China’s military. This article strips away conjecture and examines what is known, how the Communist Party disciplines the armed forces, and why the balance of evidence points toward corruption rather than a crisis of loyalty at the top of the PLA

Diplomacy / Canada

 by Jaffa Levy

Custody Without Protection: How Canada Learned That Enforcing American Power Does Not Buy American Shelter

Canada’s sudden pivot toward China is not a diplomatic awakening but a reckoning. After years of enforcing American power from extraditions to trade policy Ottawa discovered that loyalty did not guarantee protection. The detention of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou and the return of U.S. coercion exposed a structural truth: enforcement buys obedience, not immunity.

Middle East / Iran / Israel

 by Jaffa Levy

The Middle East After Sovereignty

The Middle East is no longer organised around sovereign states and formal diplomacy. From Yemen to Somaliland to Iran, competing models of power are reshaping the region around ports, networks, recognition, and economic pressure. This long read examines how Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Israel, and the United States are driving a post sovereign order whose consequences are only beginning to emerge.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Business / Companies

 by Jaffa Levy

The Consulting Pyramid Is Breaking and McKinsey Just Admitted It

McKinsey has acknowledged that artificial intelligence agents now operate alongside its human consultants at scale. This essay examines how that shift is dismantling the traditional consulting pyramid, creating a hidden training debt, and forcing a new settlement around liability, judgment, and institutional survival.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Business / Economics

 by Jaffa Levy

The End of Rented Software: How Artificial Intelligence Breaks the Subscription Model

For two decades, companies rented business software because building it was slow, costly, and risky. That assumption has collapsed. As artificial intelligence turns software creation into an industrial process, subscription platforms begin to hollow out: the thinking moves outside the product, the platform becomes a record keeping shell, and renewals become optional. The real disruption is institutional, not technical

Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Business / China / Companies / United States

 by Jaffa Levy

The Cambrian Explosion of Robots Is Real and Most Will Die

CES 2026 did not prove that humanoid robots are ready for the world. It revealed something more consequential: an overcrowded market rushing toward the same idea at the same time. History suggests what comes next. When innovation peaks in abundance rather than differentiation, consolidation follows. Most of today’s humanoid robotics pioneers will not survive the shakeout.

Defence / China / United States / Venezuela

 by Jaffa Levy

The War Beneath the Raid: China’s Doctrine Driven Response to the Seizure of Venezuela’s President

When the United States seized Venezuela’s president, the spectacle was immediate but the real contest was not. China did not respond with noise or retaliation. It responded with doctrine: law, coalition-building, asset protection, and quiet leverage over the systems that matter. The raid was a moment. The struggle over custody, compliance, and power beneath it is ongoing.

Denmark / Arctic / History

 by Jaffa Levy

Denmark’s Claim to Greenland Is in Doubt Because of Its Treatment of the Inuit, the Island’s Original Inhabitants

Denmark presents its sovereignty over Greenland as settled and lawful. But a closer look at its historical treatment of the Inuit, the island’s original inhabitants, raises deeper questions of legitimacy. From coercive population policies to forced assimilation, the record complicates Denmark’s moral claim at a moment when Greenland’s future is once again under global scrutiny.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Culture / Medicine

 by Jaffa Levy

The Quiet AI Revolution No One Noticed Until It Was Everywhere

The most important technological shifts rarely arrive with ceremonies or consensus. They become infrastructure first, and history later. Artificial intelligence is now undergoing that kind of transition—quietly reshaping coordination, decision-making and medicine while public debate remains fixated on milestones and definitions that lag reality.

Technology / China / Defence / Russia / Ukraine

 by Jaffa Levy

China and the Ukraine War, Where Drone Components Are Bought and Sourced

Drone warfare did not begin in Ukraine. It began in Nagorno Karabakh and evolved into industrial attrition powered by civilian supply chains. This article explains how modern war shifted from weapons to components, why China’s dominance in drone manufacturing and sourcing makes sanctions structurally weak, and why today’s decisive battlefield runs through factories, logistics hubs, and payment systems far from the front line.

Medicine / Artificial Intelligence (AI) / China / United States

 by Jaffa Levy

Why AI Is Forcing Big Pharma to Turn to China

Artificial intelligence has not solved drug discovery. It has exposed where pharmaceutical development really fails. As decision-making replaces invention as the bottleneck, Western drugmakers are quietly reorganising pipelines and partnerships pulling China into the system not by admiration, but by necessity.

Medicine / Britain / Health

 by Jaffa Levy

Britain Has Chosen Big Pharma Over the NHS

Britain has accepted a trade linked medicines pricing reset that makes the NHS pay more. NICE’s new chief executive has warned that paying more to satisfy Trump style demands is a huge backwards step because higher drug spend means higher taxes or NHS cuts. This analysis explains what the government agreed, why the policy is fracturing, and how the NHS cost can be estimated.