Artificial Intelligence (AI)
AI driven data centre growth and rapid electrification are increasing electricity demand in Britain’s most concentrated corridors at the same time that critical grid components such as high voltage transformers face replacement lead times…
Defence
Sanae Takaichi’s decision to describe a Taiwan contingency as a “survival-threatening situation” has pushed Japan–China tensions into legal…
Law
The High Court’s Palestine action judgement holds that the Home Secretary acted unlawfully and disproportionately in invoking terrorism…
BRICS
The dollar still dominates global finance, but states are no longer willing to rely on a single set…
Diplomacy
Arctic
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Journalism
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Science is no longer limited to campuses. As AI and automation take over experimental work, discovery shifts to the corporations that own compute, robotics,…
Economics
The United States is no longer relying on markets alone to price critical minerals. Through trade law, procurement rules, and…
Culture
Populism does not arise because voters reject democracy. It arises when democratic systems remove major economic and social decisions from…
Defence
China is not preparing to fight for Iran. It is doing something more consequential: managing the Iran file as part of its western energy and security perimeter, using diplomacy, regional mechanisms, security signalling, and…
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Big Tech’s web of AI cross-investments looks like cooperation, but it is a ceasefire forced by compute and…
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
OpenClaw and Moltbook mark the shift from AI that advises to AI that acts. As autonomous agents execute…
Defence
Israel’s conscription dispute is not mainly about religion or identity. Under the pressure of war and court rulings,…
Defence
The war in Ukraine did not create Western misjudgment about Russia. It exposed it. From officer culture and battlefield adaptation to industrial capacity and…
Defence
Economics
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Defence
Commentry
A widely shared analysis claims China has “missed its chance” and is locked into economic decline. Even accepting its data,…
Defence
At Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, the largest American military installation in the Middle East, subtle changes are underway.…
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
China is not racing the West to build smarter artificial intelligence. It is racing to embed AI into everyday digital life, turning messaging, shopping, and payments into a single action layer. That shift may…
Long Read
China
Diplomacy
Culture
Middle East
The Middle East is no longer organised around sovereign states and formal diplomacy. From Yemen to Somaliland to Iran, competing models of power are…
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
CES 2026 did not prove that humanoid robots are ready for the world. It revealed something more consequential:…
Defence
When the United States seized Venezuela’s president, the spectacle was immediate but the real contest was not. China…
Defence
China has crossed into the catapult carrier era. The decisive question now is whether it can sustain carrier…
Defence
The war in Ukraine did not break NATO. It exposed structural weaknesses that have existed inside the alliance for decades.…
Denmark
Denmark presents its sovereignty over Greenland as settled and lawful. But a closer look at its historical treatment of the…