Iran
Don’t blame Trump for food price hikes and cancelled flights
In the hierarchy of factors that will make consumers curse politicians and company bosses this summer, food price inflation probably…
Accelerating the ‘kill chain’ – a terrifying glimpse of future warfare
A misfit band of military personnel and Silicon Valley uber-geeks apply AI to target America’s enemies more rapidly and accurately than ever before
Is the Iran ceasefire crumbling?
Is the fragile Iran war ceasefire over? It would appear so, with American and Iranian forces exchanging fire in the…
For Trump, it’s lonely at the top
King Charles III and Queen Camilla were at their most emollient in Washington, where they exchanged a flurry of presents…
Portrait of the week: Olly Robbins is sacked, inflation rises and the Strait of Hormuz is (briefly) opened
Home Sir Keir Starmer tried to explain himself to parliament after Sir Olly Robbins was sacked as permanent under-secretary of…
The contempt Trump feels for his NATO allies is mutual
The war in Iran has revealed plenty about America’s ability to inflict damage on its enemies, Tehran’s capacity to resist…
Who is really leading Iran?
In declaring an extension to the ceasefire in the Iran war, President Trump signaled clearly enough that he would prefer…
Why Iran doesn’t want peace
Perhaps we should be used to be this by now. Yet again, there have been a flurry of promises to…
Iran is winning the meme war
The opening strikes on Iran forced the country’s military to operate without a centralized command structure. Despite this enormous setback,…
Flat out: the property squeeze crushing the young
Last month, a new account called London Price Drop appeared on X. It has already gained more than 14,000 followers…
Trump’s goals in Iran have always been clear
The bombing of the Revolutionary government in Iran is drawing comparisons with the war in Iraq. But the comparisons are…
What’s Britain’s place in the post-Iran world order?
Midway through James Joyce’s Ulysses, the character J.J. O’Molloytips his hat to ‘Our watchful friend, the Skibbereen Eagle’, a playful…
Who’s actually winning the wars in the Middle East?
If you read the New York Times or watch the foreign policy establishment’s “best and brightest,” you will be told,…
Sorry, but America still holds all the cards
“Negotiations.” Are you heartened or dismayed by that word? Those who remember or who have read up on the seemingly…
If Trump hates the Wall Street Journal so much, why is its editorial board dictating Iran policy?
For the better part of a decade, Donald Trump has been an avid, if irascible, reader of the Wall Street…
The truth about Pakistan’s role in the US-Iran conflict
Pakistan was always an unlikely mediator for peace negotiations between the United States, Iran and sotto voce, China. It would not…
Portrait of the week: Trump threatens Iran, Kanye is banned and Artemis II heads to the Moon
Home The government withdrew an offer to create 1,000 more training posts for doctors in England after the British Medical…
The only ‘civilisation’ Trump will destroy is his own
If, as Donald Trump had threatened, ‘a whole civilisation’ had died on Tuesday night, the whole civilisation concerned would have…
Trump: the boy who cried war
Did Donald Trump ever intend to obliterate Iranian civilisation? Some will see the past week as one in which the…
What do you do with a captured soldier?
What do you do with a captured soldier? In 255 BC, fighting the Carthaginians, the Roman consul and general Marcus…
If only TACO were true
A useful rule, when trying to understand current affairs, is AAL: Acronyms Always Lie. A case in point would be…
The Pentagon’s holy war with Rome
America is having its Golden Age, Iran is about to get blasted into the Stone Age… and Elbridge Colby wants…
We’re stuck at the worst possible oil price
A ceasefire has been agreed with Iran. The Straits of Hormuz will reopen. And the oil market will get back…
The winners and losers of the Iran ceasefire deal
The abrupt announcement of a two-week ceasefire in the war between the US, Israel and Iran resolves none of the…
Trump’s fantasy of victory
Among the many gifts the Watergate scandal gave us was Nixon’s White House press secretary declaring: “This is the operative…
