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
Britain
China
China
China
The Belt and Road Initiative is no longer built for open global trade. War in Ukraine and the Iran conflict have exposed how easily…
Economics
The UN has now voted to call the transatlantic slave trade the gravest crime against humanity. Britain abstained. The United…
United States
The White House says another round of talks with Iran may happen in Pakistan, but no date has been set…
Defence
Donald Trump’s threat to blockade the Strait of Hormuz sounds like a display of naval dominance. In reality it looks more like a thin, dangerous, legally unstable interdiction plan stretched across a vast maritime…
Economics
The ceasefire may have softened the rhetoric, but it did not restore the Strait of Hormuz as a…
Defence
The ceasefire did not restore normal transit through Hormuz. It produced a rationed, militarised passage regime in which…
Economics
The Iran war did not end dollar power. It exposed the cost of overusing it. The United States…
Diplomacy
From the 1953 coup to the destruction of the nuclear deal, from sanctions and assassination to the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader during a…
Law
Defence
Diplomacy
Economics
Economics
The Bank of England’s March decision to hold rates at 3.75 percent looked calm on the surface. Its own minutes…
Defence
The U.S. rescue of a downed F-15E airman inside Iran appears genuine. But the distance problem, the improvised airstrip, the…
Economics
China’s sovereign market is outperforming because it sits inside a different inflation cycle, a different policy regime and a different ownership structure from the West. Beijing has not built a replacement for Treasuries, but…
Science
Economics
Defence
Opinion
Economics
This is not a rerun of 1973. The old oil shock hit a manufacturing America near the height of its industrial primacy. The present…
Defence
Trump’s five day pause on striking Iran was not a diplomatic breakthrough. It was a strategic recoil after…
Britain
Britain cannot claim neutrality while allowing RAF Fairford and Diego Garcia to be used for strikes on Iran.…
Iran
The Iran war is revealing a structural weakness in modern military power. Early strikes on radar systems reduced…
Defence
This conflict is not being decided by battlefield dominance but by whether enough disruption can be sustained to break the…
Economics
The Iran war is pushing oil toward $200 a barrel and driving a broader energy shock through the global economy.…