Britain
Britain’s seizure of the Smyrtos, carrying 101,400 tonnes of Russian crude towards India, has exposed the extraordinary machinery behind Moscow’s shadow oil trade. The tanker had lost its flag, its ownership leads to Hong…
Economics
Britain has world class finance, universities, science and enormous pools of capital. Yet it invests less than any…
Middle East
From Yemen and Iraq to Lebanon, Syria and Palestine, the war with Iran is reactivating older conflicts with…
Middle East
The confrontation with Iran is becoming something larger than a war. From the Strait of Hormuz to Yemen,…
Defence
Japan
Economics
Spain
Iran
A Ukrainian drone has killed an Iranian sailor in the Caspian, Russia has paralysed Ukraine’s Black Sea corridor, and the Iran war is consuming…
Iran
America prepared a wider attack on Iran, but senior commanders warned Trump that further bombing might expose US forces without…
World
For three decades the world appeared to move in one direction. Trade expanded, technology erased distance and globalisation seemed irreversible.…
Germany
Germany has committed almost €80 billion in assistance and pledges to Ukraine, but the AfD says Berlin has failed to provide one intelligible, independently auditable account of what was spent, delivered or lost. With…
Iran
After six nights of American attacks, Iran says it has struck US radar stations, air defences, aircraft facilities…
China
For years the semiconductor race was measured by who could build the smallest transistor. Faced with Western export…
Iran
Iran says it has launched coordinated missile and drone attacks against American military facilities across the Gulf and…
Iran
Before American missiles returned to Iran, the bargain had already collapsed at sea. On Iran’s case, Washington broke the memorandum by refusing to respect…
United States
Medicine
Economics
Russia
Russia
British missiles, American long-range weapons, French-designed cruise systems and European-backed production helping Kyiv strike deeper into Russian territory. The West…
Australia
AUKUS was sold as a submarine deal. It is now becoming the framework of an Anglosphere-led defence system in the…
United States
Melat Kiros’s defeat of 15-term Democrat Diana DeGette in Denver shows that the Gaza revolt inside the Democratic Party has moved beyond New York. Her victory sends a warning to incumbents, donors and the…
Law
Britain
Israel
Iran
Britain
Andy Burnham’s Makerfield victory did not prove that Labour has recovered. It proved something more dangerous for Keir Starmer: Labour’s damaged national brand can…
Iran
A disputed US Apache incident near the Strait of Hormuz has triggered American strikes inside Iran and Iranian…
United States
Donald Trump says he calls the shots in the Middle East. Benjamin Netanyahu says an Israeli prime minister…
Britain
Henry Nowak’s murder became a national crisis because the bodycam footage appeared to touch every major fault line…
Iran
Larry Johnson and Pepe Escobar claim a well placed source told them Iran may possess a nuclear device and used…
China
China’s electric vehicle boom is not simply a story about cars, batteries or autonomous driving. Beneath the rapid rise of…