Paul Wood

Could Iranian drones bomb Britain?

20 March 2026 5:00 pm

One night in 1909, in Peterborough, a police constable named Kettle looked up and saw ‘a strange cigar-shaped craft passing over…

Inside the daring plan to reclaim the Chagos Islands

28 February 2026 9:00 am

Peros Banhos on the Chagos archipelago looks like your basic tropical island paradise: turquoise waters and golden sands, waves lapping…

Arctic role: what does Trump really want from Greenland?

24 January 2026 9:00 am

Donald Trump has probably not read Machiavelli, even the short one, The Prince. Machiavelli’s most famous advice was that it’s…

‘This? Oh, it’s nothing.’

17 January 2026 9:00 am

Jared Kushner’s international friendships with benefits

17 December 2025 9:05 pm

In 1998, the conservative intellectual and moralist Bill Bennett published a book, The Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault…

The return of Erik Prince

4 November 2025 9:23 am

Erik Prince, the American mercenary, wants to sell you a phone. His Unplugged phone is aimed at stopping big tech…

Tony Blair will not be welcome in Gaza

27 September 2025 3:30 pm

During an earlier Gaza war, I spoke to families who had fled the fighting but whose place of refuge –…

Brie

13 September 2025 9:00 am

Intimacy co-ordinator

6 September 2025 9:00 am

Internet isn’t down

2 August 2025 9:00 am