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Britain
The deployment of HMS Dragon to the Strait of Hormuz is about far more than one Royal Navy destroyer. It exposes how modern chokepoint warfare, drones, missiles and geography are reshaping maritime power in a world where Britain still carries imperial language but no longer possesses imperial scale.
Economics
Defence
Japan
Economics
Martin Wolf sees the return of global imbalances as a problem of surplus countries saving too much and America borrowing too much. But the deeper crisis lies in the dollar-centred globalisation order itself a…
Iran
Project Freedom is presented as a humanitarian escort mission. But guiding ships through Hormuz means entering a narrow…
Economics
The Iran war is no longer only a military conflict. It is exposing the fragile economic system built…
Economics
Markets are no longer measuring the economy. They are measuring liquidity, policy expectations and concentrated capital power.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Economics
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Defence
Britain is being warned to prepare for mass mobilisation, but the real weakness lies deeper. The systems needed to recruit, process, train and deploy…
Economics
The Middle East war is already pushing up fuel, freight, food and transport costs across India, Southeast Asia and Africa.…
Britain
Britain’s reliance on gas means global shocks still drive domestic costs. The Middle East conflict is not creating a new…
Britain
Reform UK’s deportation plans and Labour’s settlement reforms point to a deeper shift in British immigration policy. Analysts, government data and think tanks suggest the real risk is not mass removals but the erosion…
Germany
Russia’s decision to halt Kazakh oil transit to a key German refinery does not create a national fuel…
Iran
Iran has sent no delegation to Islamabad, undermining assumptions that talks are underway. As the ceasefire weakens and…
Russia
Russia has formally established a new remembrance day to recognise what it describes as the genocide of the…
Economics
Oil prices are rising not because the Strait of Hormuz has been fully closed, but because it has become unreliable. Some ships are crossing,…
China
China
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Economics
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Anthropic’s Mythos has been sold as a frightening leap in frontier AI. The public evidence suggests something narrower but still…
Iran
The latest US Iran talks show that the real obstacle is no longer just the nuclear file. It is whether…
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Dario Amodei’s warning is larger than the future of programmers. The chief executive of Anthropic is describing a world in which frontier AI firms do not merely build tools, but become the hidden cognitive…
Defence
Defence
Diplomacy
Economics