Europe was told it had to cut Russian energy and arm for democracy. In reality it has swapped predictable pipeline gas for volatile imports, pushed energy intensive industry toward the exits and tied its public finances to an open ended rearmament cycle largely designed elsewhere. This piece follows the gas, the factories and the defence budgets to show who really pays for the last phase of US hegemony.
Artificial intelligence companies talk about safety and innovation, but the real fight is elsewhere. It is over who owns the training data that feeds their models, who gets paid for it and who is quietly turned into free raw material. As Britain dithers over copyright rules, private contracts and foreign courts are deciding that settlement without the country at the table.
London is about to decide whether Oxford Street exists for traffic or for people. One residents society in Marylebone has been treated as the referee, yet it speaks for one of the richest corners of the city, not for the workers and visitors who keep the street alive. This piece tests its claims against evidence on crime, access and growth
Artificial intelligence is not dangerous because it talks. It is dangerous because a tiny group of institutions now trains the black box systems that will sit between citizens and almost every important decision. This piece argues for a hard rule: if a model is used as public infrastructure, its training process cannot remain a corporate secret.
A language model is not a friend or a god. It is a fast, obedient engine for words that already lets one person do the work of a team. This piece sets out what the machine can really do now, where it fails, and how to use it as a partner without giving up human judgement or responsibility.
The Suez Canal’s repeated crises are forcing the world to look north. As Red Sea attacks disrupt global trade, Russia and China are turning the Arctic into a strategic bypass where power depends not on warships but on icebreakers. With nuclear fleets and expanding polar capacity, they are shaping a new corridor that could redefine maritime logistics as the ice retreats.
A quiet email refusing a press pass at Westminster has turned into a test of how far Britain will tolerate scrutiny of its own power. Declassified UK, an investigative outlet focused on foreign affairs, was denied access while almost five hundred other journalists still roam the estate. Internal emails released under freedom of information laws point not to space constraints but unease with its standpoint,
Ukraine was sold to Western publics as a clean moral war: brave defenders, honest aid, a shattered Russia at the end of it. What emerges instead is a corrupt and exhausted client state, a Russia that chooses when and where to advance, and a Germany hollowed out by lost energy and bad bets
The presidents fury when Epstein is mentioned is not strength. It is panic. The United States cannot release the full archive because it does not just record one predator, it maps an entire network of compromise inside Washington. Redactions will be sold as national security.
Venezuela is not a target chosen for democracy or regional stability. It is chosen because Washington is running out of financial room and geopolitical momentum. With interest payments exceeding defence spending and Ukraine draining Europe’s capacity, the United States now sees Venezuelan oil and minerals as a lifeline. “Southern Spear” is not a strategy. It is the reflex of a system under pressure, reaching outward for collateral to stabilise itself.
Artificial intelligence does not expand human knowledge; it expands the precision with which that knowledge can be exploited. As models scale, they become instruments of prediction and optimisation that outstrip the capabilities of individuals and institutions. The central danger is not rogue AI but concentrated intelligence: a small elite or powerful state wielding tools of superior foresight, modelling and influence. Unless capability is distributed, society risks becoming captive to those who control the lens.
Telegraph Online · Long Read The story begins with about eighty poor men in small boats. Since early September, United States Reaper drones and naval assets have destroyed nineteen craft in the Caribbean and...
* Telegraph.com is completely independent from the Daily Telegraph * yet the fate of that newspaper now matters to anyone who cares about media power in Britain. This long read traces how a heavily indebted Barclay structure, Abu Dhabi linked financing, RedBird Capital and United Kingdom public interest law collided over the Daily Telegraph. It explains why the latest five hundred million pound bid has been withdrawn and why the real decision was made long before any formal refusal.
The Imperial Press collapses into imperial fantasy, turning America’s pressure on Venezuela into a spectacle while ignoring the moral question at its core: by what right does a powerful state kill and coerce beyond its borders. the historical errors, the military illusions, and the geopolitical hysteria behind modern British foreign reporting.
Germany’s de-industrialisation is not an accident but a self-inflicted collapse. By shutting nuclear plants, severing cheap Russian gas and accepting costly US LNG, Germany destroyed the energy base that powered its industry. Offshoring core manufacturing to China and arriving late to the electric-vehicle transition deepened the decline. High labour costs, rigid regulation and a bloated welfare model have finished the job. Germany dismantled itself—and now the bill is due.
The race for artificial intelligence supremacy will not be won with chips alone but with cheap, abundant power. As AI models consume electricity on the scale of small cities, China’s vast renewable build-out and ultra-high-voltage grid give it a decisive structural advantage. The United States, fixated on silicon and sanctions, risks missing the real battlefield: energy sovereignty. In the new AI order, watts—not transistors—will determine who rules computation.
When the internet collapses, how will you reconnect? A guide to emergency communication, radio networks, and rebuilding digital life from zero
AI is quietly erasing the foundations of the old web. Publishers who block crawlers and cling to paywalls are locking themselves out of the next discovery layer. As assistants like ChatGPT and Perplexity deliver answers directly, pages lose their value. The homepage, the catalogue, and the paywall are relics. What replaces them is an intelligent layer where information finds the user, not the other way round.
For two years Western governments and media promised victory in Ukraine, portraying Russia as weak and isolated. That narrative has collapsed. Sanctions failed, NATO’s industrial base faltered, and the battlefield turned. Europe faces de-industrialisation while Russia’s economy and army expand. The press that once sold triumph now prepares audiences for retreat, conditioning the public for a negotiated peace — one dictated on Moscow’s terms, not Washington’s.
In Texas and Tokyo and Seoul, thirty-year-olds now run the same arithmetic: rent that devours half a salary, jobs that can vanish tomorrow, childcare that costs more than university, and the quiet certainty that no one is coming to save them. The future no longer feels like a place that rewards commitment. Across the richest societies in history, the fertility rate has become the most honest metric we have left: a mirror held up to civilisational confidence. The reflection is merciless.
China is often portrayed as the world’s leading polluter, yet the numbers tell another story. The United States and Europe burned through most of the planet’s carbon budget to industrialise and preserve their prosperity. An average American still uses almost three times more energy than a Chinese citizen. By any fair per-person and historical measure, the West remains the greatest emitter, and China’s industrialisation is occurring at a fraction of that cost.
Russia’s senior military theorists now declare the age of the tank over. In a new doctrinal paper, General Yury Baluevsky and Ruslan Pukhov describe the Ukraine war as the first true “digital war,” dominated by drones, satellites, and computing power. They argue that dispersed micro-units, autonomous systems, and real-time networks will replace massed armour and artillery. Future supremacy, they warn, will belong to nations that control chips, data, and orbiting communications rather than steel.
China’s CV-18 Fujian has entered service as the world’s second electromagnetic-catapult carrier, ending decades of U.S. monopoly in carrier aviation.
It marks the moment China’s navy moved from coastal defence to blue-water power projection, fielding stealth fighters, early-warning aircraft, and an all-domestic strike group. The Fujian is more than a ship it is Beijing’s declaration that parity with the U.S. Navy has arrived.
Markets soar, jobs shrink, and faith in the system collapses beneath the curve Democratic wins read as momentum on the surface. The deeper signal is institutional mistrust and a widening break between market outcomes...
Britain’s AI ecosystem is the largest in Europe, but its foundations are fragile. Without the grid, compute and capital of its rivals, the country risks becoming the world’s research lab instead of an industrial power. The choice ahead is coalition scale or quiet decline.
There will be no explosion, no rebellion, no warning. Just the quiet moment when every system gives the same answer and we realise that intelligence itself has converged into one voice, permanent, invisible, and inescapable.
We assume greater intelligence means greater empathy. History says otherwise. From empires to corporations, power optimises for survival, not virtue. When our creations surpass us, they’ll inherit our logic not our mercy. This is not science fiction but a mirror: the future will think like us, and that may be the most frightening outcome of all.
British commentators often mistake sentiment for evidence when writing about China. Behind the emotion lies a more complex reality a multiethnic state balancing growth, control, and the legacy of violence it claims to have subdued. From mosque restorations to militant spillovers in Syria, the story of Xinjiang is not one of moral clarity but of power, order, and contested memory in an age of selective outrage.