George Galloway tells Tucker Carlson how he and his wife were stopped by counter terrorism police at Gatwick, told they were not under arrest yet not free to leave, questioned for hours about their political views and then released without charge. Legacy broadcasters downplayed the story. Online, millions view it as evidence that Britain’s security services now act with alarming impunity.
Lieutenant General Apti Alaudinov, a Chechen commander at the heart of Moscow’s war machine, says Russia is winning a deliberate slow grind in Ukraine with drones, attrition and hypersonic missiles. He claims Ukraine is bleeding faster than it can mobilise while Russian forces preserve manpower and hold back tanks. This article unpacks his story using Russian official figures and doctrine as the reference frame.
Britain no longer lives from factories; it lives from contracts, custody and trust in London. That trust is now a sanctions weapon. From Venezuelan gold to Russian reserves and Arctic gas shipping, the United Kingdom is using its courts and insurers to punish enemies. Each strike hurts Moscow. It also teaches the rest of the world how to move money and ships without London.
Russia now chooses where the war is intense and where it is merely noisy. Ukraine still holds its big cities, but the front is tilting. Village by village, the line moves around Siversk, Pokrovsk and Huliaipole, while exhausted brigades try to plug every gap at once. The real question is no longer rhetoric. It is whether Kyiv can hold these hinges or trade them away.
Donald Trump has told airlines and pilots to treat Venezuelan skies as closed, turning a security advisory into a de facto air blackout. Caracas has revoked licences for Iberia and other major carriers, Spanish and Venezuelan passengers are stranded, and Latin American leaders warn that a drug war pretext is tipping toward blockade. The legal reality is murkier than the slogan, but the shock is already real.
Hong Kong’s deadliest tower fire in decades is being sold in Western coverage as a tale of bad contractors and ageing residents. In reality it is the late stage of a British colonial housing model that still treats land as a revenue machine, squeezes people into unsafe estates, and now compares badly with the space and security most families in Shanghai, Beijing and Nanning enjoy.
Britain once sold trial by jury as proof that serious criminal justice belongs in the hands of ordinary citizens. Now ministers want to strip juries from a wide band of cases and blame them for a Crown Court backlog that years of cuts created. This Telegraph Online analysis tests whether the plan is a necessary response to crisis or a quiet transfer of power from the public to the state.
A small cluster of media groups and global platforms now acts as editor in chief of public reality in Britain. Three national newspaper groups control almost all print circulation, two chains dominate local titles, and a few foreign technology firms decide how news is found and funded. Together they translate extreme wealth at the top into quiet control over what citizens see, fear and forget.
China’s artificial intelligence giants are not only dodging United States export controls. They are also navigating Beijing’s clampdown on Nvidia. New rules that bar fresh Nvidia deployments in Chinese data centres are pushing Alibaba, ByteDance and DeepSeek to rent GPU farms in Singapore and Malaysia, even as they are forced to build a parallel stack on Huawei and other domestic chips at home.
There was a moment when the Ukraine war could have been frozen where it actually stood. Anchorage produced a twenty eight point plan that acknowledged lost territory, capped Ukraine’s army and barred NATO bases. Moscow signalled conditional acceptance. Kyiv, Europe and parts of Washington then tore it apart with rewrites and leaks. The plan did not fail. It was prevented.
The comforting script that runs through recent commentary says Russia is bleeding and a little more resolve will hand victory back to Kyiv. The numbers say something colder. Russia is winning slowly and expensively. Ukraine is losing slowly and bravely. Western policy is buying time, not changing the destination.
Rachel Reeves’s first Budget does not end Britain’s time as a polite tax haven, but it finally leans against the tide. Threshold freezes still squeeze workers, yet high value property and investment income are asked to pay more, and the two child limit is scrapped. For a country built around offshore money and domestic austerity, that is a small but real turn.
Japan’s new prime minister has forced a choice that Tokyo spent decades avoiding. By calling a Taiwan conflict a threat to Japan’s survival, Sanae Takaichi has pleased Washington and enraged Beijing while riding high in the polls at home. Behind the drama sits a harder project that links whitewashed war memory, rearmed forces and a disposable foreign workforce.
China’s boycott of Japan is not about crowded temples or lost hotel bookings. It is a response to a Japanese prime minister speaking of force in a conflict that touches Chinese territory, against the backdrop of tens of millions of Chinese dead in the last war. Beijing is using tourism to show that history and economic power now move together.
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.