United States
Trump’s drawdown of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve reveals a more serious weakness: America’s shrinking margin for another Gulf crisis. With the reserve less than half full and refineries dependent on the right crude mix,…
Russia
British missiles, American long-range weapons, French-designed cruise systems and European-backed production helping Kyiv strike deeper into Russian territory.…
Australia
AUKUS was sold as a submarine deal. It is now becoming the framework of an Anglosphere-led defence system…
United States
Melat Kiros’s defeat of 15-term Democrat Diana DeGette in Denver shows that the Gaza revolt inside the Democratic…
Britain
United States
Britain
Law
Britain
Britain’s new US-free missile programme for Ukraine is more than another arms package. It is an attempt to preserve a British-enabled long-range strike chain…
Britain
Andy Burnham’s Makerfield victory did not prove that Labour has recovered. It proved something more dangerous for Keir Starmer: Labour’s…
Iran
The US Iran memorandum does not end the conflict. It moves the war into a colder arena of sanctions, shipping,…
Iran
A proposed US-Iran memorandum may stop the fighting, but its deeper meaning is sharper: Washington sought surrender and instead found itself negotiating the limits of its own coercive power.
Iran
Larry Johnson and Pepe Escobar claim a well placed source told them Iran may possess a nuclear device…
China
China’s electric vehicle boom is not simply a story about cars, batteries or autonomous driving. Beneath the rapid…
Germany
The Alternative for Germany is no longer merely a protest movement. As the party approaches its first realistic…
United States
The dispute over the Strait of Hormuz is no longer simply a confrontation between Washington and Tehran. It has become a test of whether…
India
Iran
Israel
Germany
China
Officially, Vladimir Putin's visit to Beijing is about trade, energy and strategic partnership. Unofficially, the meeting comes as Moscow increasingly…
Russia
As Ukrainian drone strikes reach deeper into Russia and Baltic airspace becomes increasingly entangled in the war, Europe faces a…
United States
A Pentagon inspector general report has revealed deep failures in the United States military’s civilian harm mitigation system, reopening scrutiny of the deadly strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, Iran, where more…
Britain
Britain
China
Britain
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Beijing's new intelligent agent policy is not a narrow AI rulebook. It is a blueprint for a governed machine society, where autonomous software actors…
Economics
The Iran crisis is beginning to move beyond oil and into the hidden petrochemical systems that underpin modern…
Defence
Britain is sailing through the South China Sea as if history has not moved. HMS Spey, a Royal…
Japan
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s tour of Vietnam and Australia looked like reassurance diplomacy: ceremonial gifts, smiling photographs and…
Economics
The Bank of England should have raised interest rates. By holding back, it protected the cheap money regime that inflated…
Iran
Iranian state media claimed two missiles struck a US Navy vessel near Jask after IRGC warnings, raising the risk that…