Russia
Russia has formally established a new remembrance day to recognise what it describes as the genocide of the Soviet people during the Great Patriotic War. With 27 million dead and more than 9,000 towns…
China
China’s Belt and Road is moving beyond infrastructure into rule-making and governance. As global systems fragment, Beijing is…
China
The Belt and Road Initiative is no longer built for open global trade. War in Ukraine and the…
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
AI is no longer just improving intelligence. It is making execution cheap. Once code, prototypes and workflows can…
Economics
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Iran
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Economics
Europe’s aviation system is discovering that fuel was never just a commodity. It was a geopolitical dependency. As disruption around Hormuz deepens, airlines are…
Defence
Donald Trump’s threat to blockade the Strait of Hormuz sounds like a display of naval dominance. In reality it looks…
Defence
In the Iranian account, the attempted American passage into the Persian Gulf was not a clean naval transit but a…
Diplomacy
The Islamabad talks failed not because diplomacy was impossible, but because Tehran saw the United States as a power asking for sovereign concessions in an atmosphere shaped by war, coercion, reversals, and deep mistrust.…
Economics
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Economics
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…
Education
At Halsmere Studios in South London, students say strong management and pastoral care have built trust by word…
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…
Artificial intelligence is being sold as a leap in knowledge and productivity. In reality it is becoming a…
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 warning times,…
Defence
This conflict is not being decided by battlefield dominance but by whether enough disruption can be sustained to break the…