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Europe is burning, don’t blame the migrants
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Before General Winter: Russia presses Ukraine’s front
How America’s AI bubble could become a debt spiral
How the Ukraine War Is Changing the Way Armies Fight
The AI Bubble Meets the Bond Market
United States
U.S. Government Struggles to Protect Secrets From Future Quantum Attacks
A federal investigation found that only one of 24 major U.S. agencies had completed an inventory of systems…
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
South Korea’s Bank Hacks Show How AI Could Make Hacking Cheap
A wave of attacks on South Korean banks suggests artificial intelligence may be changing cybercrime not by inventing…
Supreme Court weighs de minimis threshold for GDPR compensation
The Battle for Bab el-Mandeb Is Moving Into Saudi Arabia
Russia Strikes Kyiv’s Bridges as Bombardment Targets Ukraine’s Power, Ports and Communications
Ukraine
How Russia is trying to prise open Ukraine’s front
Across Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Sumy and northern Kharkiv, Russian forces are pressing defended towns and the roads that keep…
Long Read
How Britain Helped Create the Nakba and the Dispossession, Exile and Occupation Palestinians Still Endure
Britain did not merely fail to resolve the conflict in Palestine. From the Balfour Declaration to the Mandate,…
America has built the machinery for another Iran air war
A Quantum Computer Could One Day Steal Bitcoin. Is Bitcoin Ready?
AI Is Moving Into the Unknown. Can Science Keep Up?
Could Iran Lawfully Attack RAF Fairford?
Hormuz Is Still Dangerous, but Some Oil Is Getting Through
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
The AI Boom May Make America Richer and Electricity More Expensive
America’s AI investment boom is lifting GDP through data centres, servers and new power infrastructure. But the same…
Iran
Iran’s missiles raise the cost of another US bombing campaign
Iranian missile and drone strikes have disrupted American bases and naval supplies across the Gulf. As Donald Trump…
Britain and Europe Are Preparing for Conflict With Russia Without Fully Examining the Consequences
Saudi Arabia: The Kingdom That Tamed the Tribes
The Two Clocks of AI: Can Trust Keep Pace With Intelligence?
The War in Yemen Is Reopening Saudi Arabia’s Oldest Question
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia’s Crisis Puts Turkey and Pakistan’s Defence Promise to the Test
Attacks on Saudi Arabia and Houthi advances in Yemen are testing its defence pact with Turkey and Pakistan.…
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Dario Amodei Wants to Slow the AI Race. Who Benefits?
Anthropic chief Dario Amodei argues that frontier AI must slow down for safety. But his proposals could also…
BRICS Wants Seamless Global Payments. Who Will Set the Rules?
Divided on War, BRICS Takes Aim at the Machinery of Economic Power
Putin Warns Europe: Troops in Ukraine Would Mean War With Russia
Middle East
Saudi Oil Escape Route Threatened as Houthis Seize Red Sea Gateway Island
Houthi forces have seized Mayun Island at the entrance to the Red Sea as drone attacks shut Saudi…
Middle East
How Yemen’s Houthis Reached the Gate of the Red Sea
Ansar Allah’s advance to Bab el Mandeb has placed Yemen once again at the centre of a struggle…
China Can Afford Dearer Oil. Can Its Factories?
Britain Is Already Paying for the Iran War. What Happens If Oil Goes to $140?
The Bond Market Is Sending the Bill. Who Pays?
America Put Huawei’s Founder’s Daughter in Chains. Now It Puts Huawei on Trial
The AfD Has Won. Germany Does Not Know What Comes Next
Defence
China Is Preparing for a War of Attrition America Wasn’t Built to Fight
Chinese military thinkers are developing a strategy built on a brutal equation: force America to spend more than…
Venezuela
To the Victor Belong the Spoils: America’s Venezuelan Oil Deal
After US forces removed Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela rewrote its oil law and granted a Pentagon-linked venture century-long rights…
Across a Broken Frontier, China and Nepal Unite in Relief
A Second Flood Threatens Nepal as a New Himalayan Lake Builds Behind the Wreckage
The Nuclear Taboo Is Breaking. The Unthinkable Is Becoming Thinkable
Why Should a War Thousands of Miles Away Determine British Electricity Prices ?
Medicine
Can Old Cells Become Young Again? The Experiment That Has Reached Humans
Scientists have discovered that ageing cells may retain information about their younger state. Now a treatment derived from…
Long Read
The $40 Trillion Empire: How Debt Built American Power and Began to Consume It
America’s $40 trillion debt is more than a fiscal warning. For half a century, deficits and dollar dominance…
America’s “Economic D Day” Against Iran May Be a Weapon It Cannot Control
Recursive Self Improvement and the Race to Automate Research
Europe’s Unprecedented Drought Is Drying Its Rivers, Ruining Harvests and Shutting Down Power Stations
Economics
The Yen Should Be Rising. Its Failure to Do So Is Exposing Japan’s Trillion Yen Debt Trap
The yen should be strengthening as the interest rate gap with America narrows. Instead it remains stubbornly weak.…
Russia Maps British and European Shipping in the Pacific as Putin Threatens Retaliation at Sea
The Price of Safety: The World Economy Is Rebuilding Everything Globalisation Removed
Inside the Shadow Fleet: The Tanker Britain Seized and the £35 Million Mystery in Its Holds
Europe’s Perfect Storm: Drought, War and the Coming Food Shock
Economics
The Japanese Money That Helped Finance America Is Coming Home
Japan spent three decades exporting cheap capital and became America’s largest foreign creditor. As the yen slid towards…
Africa Is Building a Financial System of Its Own and the Dollar Is No Longer Always Needed
Britain Has Money. Why Can It No Longer Build?
The Age of Machine Discovery Has Begun
The Iran War Is Becoming Many Wars and Washington May No Longer Be Able to Stop Them
The Old Middle East Is Breaking Apart, A New Order Is Taking Shape.
Defence
Russia’s Greater Resources Are Beginning to Decide the War as the Battle Moves to the Cities
Russia’s larger population, deeper industrial base, greater energy resources and superior capacity in missiles, aircraft, air defence and…
Economics
The Economics of Power: Why the West’s Greatest Challenge Begins at Home
Military strength no longer rests on armies alone. Artificial intelligence, sovereign debt, industrial capacity, energy security and manufacturing…
The Ceuta Illusion: Why Europe’s Border Did Not Collapse
Russia Calls It a War With the West as Ukraine and Iran’s Conflict Begins to Merge
Why the Future of Artificial Intelligence May Be Decided Outside America
Inside the Slow Destruction of Ukraine’s Donbas Fortress
Germany
The Deindustrialisation of Germany: How Europe’s Economic Engine Began to Break Down
Germany’s industrial model once appeared unassailable, built on engineering excellence, affordable energy and global exports. Today suppliers are…
Education
The Day India’s Students Said Enough
A leaked examination paper became the spark for one of the most remarkable youth movements in modern India.…
Europe is preparing for war with Russia. Nobody has told its citizens what that war would mean
Germany Sent Billions to Ukraine. The AfD Wants to Know Where Every Euro Went
Germany’s Strategy for Containing the AfD Is Reaching Its Limit
Iran
America’s Gulf security system is turning inside out
America’s Gulf bases, ports and pipelines were built to contain Iran. They now expose the region’s water, energy…
Defence
The West Knows How to Escalate. It Has Forgotten How Wars End
Western strategy in both Iran and Ukraine increasingly relies on the belief that more military and economic pressure…
The Great Separation: How Finance Left the Real Economy Behind
China’s New Chip Strategy Could Change the Rules of the AI Race
The World’s Energy Shock Is Already Under Way
Inside the AI Bubble: The Trillion-Dollar Bet That Must Not Fail
War Spreads Across the Gulf as Iran Claims Strikes on US Bases
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
AI Is Being Grown, Not Built
Artificial intelligence is emerging from systems even their makers cannot fully explain. The question is no longer whether…
Iran
Khamenei’s Funeral Becomes Iran’s Answer to America
Iran is turning Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s funeral into a vast act of mourning and defiance, challenging Washington’s claim…
Trump Is Burning Through America’s Last Oil Cushion
UK–US Drug Deal Raises Fear of £45bn NHS Raid
Japan’s Fiscal Gamble Has Trapped Its Central Bank
Kyiv Is Now the Centre of Putin’s War of Pressure
Russia
The West Is Testing Russia’s Patience and Retaliation May Follow
British missiles, American long-range weapons, French-designed cruise systems and European-backed production helping Kyiv strike deeper into Russian territory.…
Britain
Starmer’s Final Rewrite: Corbyn Accuses Him of Distorting Labour’s Past
Keir Starmer resigned by claiming he had rescued Labour from political, financial and moral bankruptcy. Jeremy Corbyn’s rebuttal…
Mamdani’s New York Sweep Shows the Democratic Old Guard Can Be Beaten
The Fight Over Ed Miliband Is Really a Fight Over Labour’s Industrial Future
UN Report Says Gaza’s Children Were Not Collateral Damage. They Were the Target
Britain
Britain Is Nearing the Danger Line in Ukraine’s War
Britain’s new US-free missile programme for Ukraine is more than another arms package. It is an attempt to…
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
AI Is Not Coming for Every Job. It Is Coming for the Weak Parts of Work
Artificial intelligence will not destroy every profession. It will expose which parts of work are routine, which require…
The Iran Deal Is the Price of Washington’s Miscalculation
US and Iran Exchange Strikes After Disputed Apache Incident Near Hormuz
Lebanon Is Testing the Limits of Trump’s Power Over Netanyahu
Claude Is Writing Anthropic’s Code. The Human Role Is Changing
The Fight Over AI Is No Longer About Chatbots. It Is About Who Owns the Next Economy
Britain
Henry Nowak, Two Tier Policing and the Crisis of British Trust
Henry Nowak’s murder became a national crisis because the bodycam footage appeared to touch every major fault line…
China
China’s Automotive Industry Has Become A Laboratory For Economic Power
China’s electric vehicle boom is not simply a story about cars, batteries or autonomous driving. Beneath the rapid…
As AfD Approaches Government, Europe Faces a Legitimacy Crisis
The Strait of Hormuz Has Become the Chokepoint of American Decline
America Can Strike Iran. It Cannot Shield the Gulf From the Fallout
Russia Signals the Protected Zone Around Kiev May Be Ending
India
Britain’s Migration Reversal Is Changing How Indian Students See the UK
Britain’s falling net migration figures are reshaping how Indian students and families judge the value of a UK…
China
Putin And Xi Meet As Drone Escalation Pushes Russia Towards A Dangerous Decision
Officially, Vladimir Putin's visit to Beijing is about trade, energy and strategic partnership. Unofficially, the meeting comes as…
The Baltic Is Becoming Europe’s Most Dangerous Front
Pentagon Report Raises New Questions Over Minab School Massacre
From London to New York, the War Shock Is Driving Mortgage Costs Higher
World
Fuel, fertiliser and freight: how the Iran war is spreading through the global economy
Nearly 80 countries have introduced emergency measures as the Iran war spreads through the world economy. India is…
Britain
Police Flood London as Tommy Robinson Rally Tests Britain’s Fractured Politics
Tommy Robinson’s London rally is not just another far right march. It exposes a deeper crisis in Britain’s…
Makerfield Is No Coronation: Andy Burnham’s Road to Power Runs Through Labour’s Broken Machine
Two Warning Lights Are Flashing Across America: Inflation and a Deepening Bond Market Crisis
Britain’s New Guns Are The Story. The Guns It Gave Away Are The Real Story
Trump’s First Day at the Beijing Summit Began With Theatre and Ended With Strategic Reality
Something Happened in the Bronze Age That Should Shock Us
China
Trump China Visit Opens Under the Shadow of Iran, Rare Earths, Taiwan and a Global Economy Under Pressure
Donald Trump’s Beijing summit with Xi Jinping is not a peace conference or a grand bargain. It is…
United States
Trump Goes to Beijing Because Neither America Nor China Is Ready for the Break
Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing is not a peace summit or a grand bargain. It is a crisis…
The LNG ships that passed through Iran’s gate
The Iran war is about to enter the British shopping basket
HMS Spey and the End of British Gunboat Diplomacy in the South China Sea
Behind Japan’s Smiles and Melons Lies a Harder Asian Strategy
Economics
Martin Wolf Sees Imbalances. The Real Story Is the Bill for the Dollar Order
Martin Wolf sees the return of global imbalances as a problem of surplus countries saving too much and…
Iran
Trump Says America Will Escort Ships Through Hormuz. That Means Entering Iran’s Kill Zone
Project Freedom is presented as a humanitarian escort mission. But guiding ships through Hormuz means entering a narrow…
The Iran War Is Exposing the Fragility of Globalisation
Why Markets Keep Rising as War and Shortages Spread
The AI Coding Boom Is Creating Software Nobody Fully Owns
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
The Question Has Changed: If AI Systems Show Internal States, We Must Ask Whether We Are Causing Harm
AI systems are no longer just producing language. Evidence is emerging that internal states are shaping their behaviour,…
The Emirates Goes Alone: What the UAE’s OPEC Exit Really Means
The New Coding: If You Are a Software Developer, This Is Your Future
Britain’s Army crisis is not conscription. It is the collapse of mobilisation capacity
Oil holds above $110 as Hormuz disruption tightens supply, with prices expected to climb
Economics
The Iran War Is Becoming a Global Supply Chain Crisis : And Diplomacy Is Falling Behind
Diplomacy has begun in Islamabad, but without direct US–Iran talks the economic damage continues to compound. The war…
The Hormuz Shock Is Starting to Bite : Asia and Africa Feel It First, Europe Is Next
Middle East conflict exposes Britain’s hidden energy vulnerability
Britain’s immigration crackdown is not about deportations but about stripping permanence from millions before the rules change
Swap Lines Are Revealing the Dollar System’s Hidden Hierarchy
Why John Phelan’s Sudden Exit Matters More Than the Pentagon Is Willing to Say
Iran
The truce that followed the Islamabad talks was never a bridge to peace. It was a narrow pause layered over an active war system.
The ceasefire did not fail because diplomacy never opened. It failed because the pause after Islamabad was asked…
Economics
Oil Is Rising Because Hormuz Cannot Be Trusted, Not Because It Is Shut
Oil prices are rising not because the Strait of Hormuz has been fully closed, but because it has…