Artificial Intelligence (AI)
AI systems are no longer just producing language. Evidence is emerging that internal states are shaping their behaviour, raising a question that is no longer theoretical: what, if anything, is happening inside them.
Economics
Oil prices remain elevated above $110 as disruption around the Strait of Hormuz erodes global supply buffers, with…
Economics
Diplomacy has begun in Islamabad, but without direct US–Iran talks the economic damage continues to compound. The war…
Economics
The Middle East war is already pushing up fuel, freight, food and transport costs across India, Southeast Asia…
Britain
Britain
United States
Defence
Iran
The ceasefire did not fail because diplomacy never opened. It failed because the pause after Islamabad was asked to carry a political weight it…
Russia
Russia has formally established a new remembrance day to recognise what it describes as the genocide of the Soviet people…
Economics
Oil prices are rising not because the Strait of Hormuz has been fully closed, but because it has become unreliable.…
Britain
Ride Nuff, a driver-founded London taxi app, is challenging Uber with a flat-fee model. Oxford research suggests the frustration behind it is real.
China
China
China
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
AI is no longer just improving intelligence. It is making execution cheap. Once code, prototypes and workflows can…
Economics
A war driven shock in energy and fertiliser markets is colliding with the debt burden of food importing…
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Anthropic’s Mythos has been sold as a frightening leap in frontier AI. The public evidence suggests something narrower…
Iran
The latest US Iran talks show that the real obstacle is no longer just the nuclear file. It is whether diplomacy can survive when…
Economics
United States
Defence
Defence
Diplomacy
The Islamabad talks failed not because diplomacy was impossible, but because Tehran saw the United States as a power asking…
Economics
The Iran war did not suddenly break a healthy British economy. It hit a country that had already entered 2026…
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
The first AI boom rewarded those who could copy a successful formula and pour in more compute. The next phase looks harsher. The durable advantage may belong to the labs that can combine computing…
Economics
Defence
Economics
Education
Diplomacy
Diplomacy
Defence
Law
This legal analysis examines whether reported strikes on a school, health facilities and a bridge in Iran, together with Donald Trump’s reported threats to…
Economics
The quoted Brent price is no longer the whole story. The real stress is in the physical oil…
Economics
The Bank of England’s March decision to hold rates at 3.75 percent looked calm on the surface. Its…
Defence
The U.S. rescue of a downed F-15E airman inside Iran appears genuine. But the distance problem, the improvised…
Economics
China’s sovereign market is outperforming because it sits inside a different inflation cycle, a different policy regime and a different…
Economics
Chinese electric vehicles are largely shut out of the U.S. market by tariffs and security rules, yet younger American consumers…