Britain Is Spending the Interest on Russia’s Frozen Money. Some call it theft
Britain is spending the income on Russia’s frozen reserves, a move critics call theft. Once London’s trust premium erodes, investors may not return.
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Manufactured Hysteria: Europe’s Panic Play to Keep Trump’s America Paying for Ukraine
The alleged violation was sensationalised and given wall-to-wall coverage in Western media. What was not mentioned is that in April 2025 Estonia passed a law expanding its military authority over its exclusive economic zone,...
Why Britain Feels So Bitterly Divided and Why the Explanations Are Wrong
YouTube embedded video under license. Uploaded by No Comment TV. Aerial and ground footage showing the crowd at the Tommy Robinson, mainly white working-class rally in central London. I read a strange syndicated piece...
Shadows Behind Closed Doors: How Labour Together Rose From Defeat to Power
Labour Together began as a quiet project after Corbyn’s shock leadership win. A decade later, it stands at the heart of Starmer’s government.
Britain’s Expanding Digital Controls: Security Tool or Civil Liberties Overreach?
Britain has pushed further than almost any other Western democracy in marrying surveillance, internet regulation, and artificial intelligence to its domestic security system.
Britain’s Mandatory Digital ID: From Policy Experiment to National Requirement
The government has now confirmed that digital ID will be mandatory for Right to Work checks, marking a decisive shift from earlier voluntary trials. Framed as a tool to combat fraud and streamline services,...
China Strikes Back in Growing Tech War With Washington
Embedded video under YouTube license — Creator of this video: Woodford from Woodford Videos. Follow him. BEIJING — The announcement came on an overcast September morning, delivered not with fanfare but with the clipped...
Latest War Report From Eastern Ukraine: Russian Forces Press Encirclement, Gains Near Pokrovsk
Video from Radio Free Europe. The situation on September 24 has become more difficult for the Ukrainians, with the Russians making major gains. Embedded under YouTube license. Russian forces in eastern Ukraine say they...
Anna Netrebko’s Triumphant Return to London
Anna Netrebko returned to the Royal Opera House in London with a triumphant Tosca, her first appearance since 2019. Her performance comes after years of political bans and media hysteria, underscoring how the campaign to silence Russian artists has collapsed.
When Whales Speak: Using AI To Communicate
The question is not whether whales, crows, or AIs “deserve” rights. It is who decides the hierarchy of intelligences — and in whose interests. The jungle of minds is coming. The real predators will be those who control the definitions.
China Converts Thousands of Soviet-Era MiG-19 Jets Into Drones for Swarm Attacks
Soviet-era MiG-19s (China: J-6) Licensed from the USSR in 1958 and mass-produced in China as the Shenyang J-6. Over 4,500 built; thousands retired and stockpiled since the 1990s. Estimates suggest up to ~3,000 retired...
Nepal at a Crossroads: Youth Uprising, Rumors of Outside Influence, and a New Judge Who Promises Change
Here is the Chinese Ambassador to Nepal, Hou Yanqi, singing with her colleagues the Nepali folk song Resham Firiri as a Dashain greeting to the people of Nepal. Hou Yanqi served as ambassador from...
Trump Links Tylenol to Autism in White House Speech, Calls for Warning Labels
President Donald J. Trump delivered what he described as “the biggest medical announcement in U.S. history,” linking the use of paracetamol (known in the United States under the brand name Tylenol) to autism risk...
Javier Milei’s Austrian Economics Experiment and Argentina’s Struggle With Inflation, Austerity and Reform
BUENOS AIRES — Argentina has grown accustomed to living at the edge of crisis. Inflation has been a permanent companion, the peso a fragile token of trust, and the state an omnipresent but unreliable...
Trump Poised to Challenge Big Pharma With Autism Announcement at 4 p.m. U.S. Time (9 p.m. UK)
She remembers the knock on the door like it was yesterday. The sheriff’s deputy, the sealed envelope, the word she’d been dreading: lawsuit. Her son was gone, another casualty in the long tail of...
Sunlight: The Missing Medicine for High Blood Pressure
For decades, sunlight has been cast as the enemy—something to block, screen, or fear. Yet beneath the warnings lies a quieter truth: our bodies are wired to thrive on light, and pills alone cannot...
A Recognition That Rearranges the Map—Not the Ground
In a landmark synchronized announcement timed for the opening of the 80th United Nations General Assembly, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia formally recognized the State of Palestine as a sovereign entity on September...
China Draws a Line: Cooperate or Confrontation Will Cost Everyone
BEIJING — China’s leadership on September 19 delivered one of its clearest warnings yet to Washington: cooperate on equal terms, or brace for a rupture that will hurt not only the world’s two largest...
A Test of Nerves Over Vaindloo: Russia’s MiG-31s Probe NATO’s Edge
The MiG-31, a Soviet-era interceptor built to race nearly three times the speed of sound and patrol vast frontiers, is not a plane often mistaken for routine traffic. Designed to hunt down high-flying threats...
Russia’s New Tax on the Rich — Still Among Europe’s Lowest as Growth Outstrips Major Economies
Video credit: Travelling with Russell — YouTube channel. Please visit him. Embedded under YouTube’s Embedding Terms and Conditions. © Google LLC 2025. Russia’s economy is booming compared to Britain’s. In 2024 it grew by...
Britain’s Carefully Orchestrated Flattery of Trump
LONDON — Britain rolled out its oldest tricks of statecraft when President Donald J. Trump returned this summer for an “unprecedented” second state visit. The carriages, the uniforms, the banquets in Windsor Castle were...
The End of Search: How AI Will Destroy the Old Gatekeepers of Knowledge
An entire industry has grown up around appeasing a single master. It is called SEO, and it has only one purpose: to win Google’s favor. Every publisher, business, and campaign bends its words to...
Chinese General Says Taiwan Could Be Taken With Conventional Arms as Parade Suggested New Hypersonic Missile
Lieutenant General He Lei, retired vice-president of the PLA Academy of Military Sciences, shown in uniform at a Beijing forum. Source: CGTN (state media). A retired Chinese general has declared that Beijing could achieve...
The World Order Is Quietly Turning: From Caracas to the Arctic, a New Map Emerges
The most revealing story of the month did not unfold in the Taiwan Strait or the Black Sea. It played out in the Caribbean, where the United States has surged warships and carried out...
Venezuela Stages Caribbean War Games, Moves Closer to Russia Amid Rising U.S. Naval Pressure
With United States warships patrolling near Venezuelan waters and Caracas conducting large-scale exercises while advancing a new security pact with Moscow, the Caribbean has become the latest stage for a contest over power, sovereignty...
India is in the middle of a strategic balancing act between Washington and Moscow
NEW DELHI — The four-day war began before breakfast. On a pale May morning, Indian Air Force fighters rose from bases in Punjab and Jammu; across the line, Pakistani pilots climbed to meet them....
Chandeliers in Windsor, Drizzle in London: Britain’s Theatre of Power Meets the Reality of Decline
Donald Trump left Winfield House this morning, the U.S. ambassador’s residence in Regent’s Park, and flew to Windsor Castle. In the Walled Garden he was greeted by the Prince and Princess of Wales, then...
Nepal’s Fragile Interregnum: From Street Fires to a Caretaker Cabinet
Nepal’s streets have forced a reckoning. In the space of a week, the country has gone from a government certain of its control to a caretaker administration scrambling to contain anger and restore a...