Ukraine is being boxed in by three forces at once: a corruption scandal that reaches into Zelensky’s old circle, a peace plan drafted between Washington and Moscow, and a frontline that is creeping the wrong way. Trump’s deadline does not solve any of this. It exposes the fact that Kyiv’s choices are now about managing different forms of defeat, not choosing victory.
The twenty eight point peace plan now on the table does not end the Ukraine war on Western terms. It writes into law what the battlefield has already decided. Ukraine is pushed out of NATO, loses more land, and becomes a neutral buffer, while Europe discovers it was collateral in a project that overreached from the start.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
While Beijing executes a three-stage national plan that defines artificial intelligence as civilisational infrastructure, Washington and London are still improvising with memos and committees. China is aligning technology, governance and diplomacy into one machine. The West still debates ethics while Beijing writes the rules of the intelligent age.
American and British warships massing off Venezuela mark not a prelude to invasion but a theatre of pressure fleets circling a crisis that looks like war yet stops short of it. With around ten thousand troops at sea, Washington appears to be testing leverage, not launching conquest. Maritime power is being used as policy: signalling, coercion and the threat of precision strikes dressed in the language of counternarcotics.
Javier Milei’s sweeping mid-term victory was more than a political win. It marked the first real-world test of Austrian economics the belief that free prices, hard money, and minimal state control can rebuild a nation from the ground up. After years of crisis, voters backed his radical plan to shrink government, balance the budget, and restore confidence in Argentina’s currency.
THE TELEGRAPH.COM LONG READ — Europe no longer wages war only on the battlefield. It wages it in language, in narrative, and in the stories it tells itself. A generation of leaders has replaced strategy with moral theatre, diplomacy with slogans, and truth with propaganda and now the bill for that self-deception is coming due.
In the span of two months, U.S. naval forces have turned the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific into a theatre of undeclared war launching at least fifteen lethal strikes on boats alleged to be drug carriers, leaving dozens dead and entire crews vanished at sea. Washington calls it counternarcotics. Caracas, Beijing and much of Latin America call it a return to gunboat power extrajudicial killings in peacetime waters under the flag of law enforcement.
Chinese diplomacy cannot be understood through the language of ideology alone. Behind Wang Yi’s measured tone and deliberate cadence lies a civilisational grammar shaped by two millennia of scholar-official tradition and moral bureaucracy. Where Western diplomats see negotiation, Beijing performs continuity and legitimacy, a ritual of culture, hierarchy and virtue.
A decade after the Union parties vowed never to work with the AfD, Germany’s political geometry has hardened into paralysis. The exclusion that was meant to contain the right now keeps the left in power and strengthens the very movement it tried to suppress.
Poland has become NATO’s most anxious frontier a country caught between vigilance and hysteria. A string of drone and airspace incidents along the eastern flank has pushed the alliance toward a posture where accidents can look like acts of war. As Warsaw re-arms and Europe rehearses deterrence, President Karol Nawrocki faces a narrowing choice: keep Poland a shield, or watch it become the spark.
Is war with Iran Approaching. The choreography of logistics, diplomacy, and rhetoric suggests a narrowing path to confrontation that could reshape the region or plunge it into chaos.
The spectre of the 1930s has returned not through mobs or uniforms, but through manufactured crisis and political decrees. Europe’s political elites, convinced they defend democracy, are reproducing its decay. The West’s has birthed a bureaucratic form of fascism, administered by committees controlled by global finance and Oligarchs controlling online platforms.
The real story is industrial rather than conspiratorial. Faced with the vulnerability of foreign supply, China spent the past decade mastering the metallurgy, forging and testing of high speed rail wheels.