


Another round of nuclear talks opens today in Geneva, with Iran once again dictating the terms of engagement. Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht-Ravanchi leads Tehran’s delegation, while representatives from Britain, France and Germany will dutifully attend, in the hope that…

It was once the preserve of astronomers and dreamers, a serene stage for satellites and lunar probes. Now, in words that leave little doubt about the new strategic landscape, India’s Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has declared that space is no…

South Korea has quietly fought off a barrage of assaults this year — not with missiles or tanks, but with firewalls and cyber specialists. The revelation that its military faced 9,200 cyberattacks in the first half of 2025 alone, a…

The Alaskan summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin was less a diplomatic negotiation than an episode of The Apprentice: Geopolitics Edition. Trump, grinning like a compare about to deliver a catchphrase, called the talks “productive.” That word, in his…

There is a grim and unwelcome truth that Europe’s political class has been studiously avoiding for far too long: the continent is not ready for a war it may not have the luxury to avoid. Russian aggression, once dismissed as…

In what Downing Street is triumphantly branding a “breakthrough” in the battle against illegal Channel crossings, Britain has begun detaining its first group of migrants under a freshly inked pilot agreement with France. Migrants arriving via small boats are now…

There are few figures in modern British political history more maligned—or more vindicated—than Enoch Powell. For decades, his name has been shorthand for political infamy, a cautionary tale of a man who dared to speak the unspeakable. Yet, as Britain…

A series of Ukrainian drone strikes have targeted key infrastructure inside the Russian Federation, marking one of the most extensive cross-border operations by Ukraine in recent months. The attacks, reported in Samara and Ryazan regions, hit oil refineries, military plants,…

Across Europe, a troubling silence persists. It is not the silence of ignorance, but of evasion—deliberate, cultivated, and maintained by a political class unwilling to confront one of the great questions of our age: what happens to a democracy when…

It is the kind of question that used to be whispered in think tanks and war colleges—an abstract exercise for Europe’s policymakers and generals. Now it is being asked aloud in parliaments, defence ministries, and increasingly anxious households from Vilnius…