Iran
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…
What will the Iran ceasefire cost Trump?
Might Donald Trump travel to Tehran this spring to open an American embassy and declare that he’s fallen in love with the new…
Why Trump is tempting 25th Amendment talk
During his remarks in Budapest, Vice President J.D. Vance, who is trying prop up Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán as he runs for reelection, appeared to think the unthinkable.…
Is the US nuclear bomber base being targeted for a strike?
A lockdown at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana triggered by a mysterious drone swarm last month didn’t last long.…
Is Pete Hegseth waging a Christian Zionist war?
By pushing religion almost as much as US military might in his war briefings, Pete Hegseth has raised questions about…
Will Trump really obliterate Iran on Tuesday?
Was Donald Trump’s profane and threatening tweet, which included an F-bomb and an allusion to Iran’s leaders as “crazy bastards,”…
Why Pakistan is brokering peace in Iran
Pakistan, the world’s only Muslim nuclear power, has traditionally been an international sideshow. No longer. The country has reportedly been…
Portrait of the week: Oil prices surge, Scott Mills is sacked and the Houthis join the war
Home Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, said: ‘We are working on a viable plan for the Strait of Hormuz.’…
Russia has its eyes on Svalbard
Svalbard The quiet hillside by Longyearbyen’s church gives visitors to the capital of Norway’s Svalbard archipelago an austere but beautiful…
Britain must recognise Somaliland
Somalia has been a byword for failed statehood and violence for so long that the calm of Somaliland, its neighbour…
Hong Kong is the new Dubai
I had forgotten, if I ever knew, that National Savings and Investments (NS&I) began life in 1861 as the Post…
Iran’s secret weapon of self-sacrifice
Much has been made of the adjective ‘asymmetric’ when discussing warfare in recent years. The word enjoys a renewed currency…
This is what Trump means by ‘victory’ in Iran
President Trump has now told us something very important about the war with Iran. Ponder his address to the nation…
Ignore the propaganda war
Prediction: by the time you read this, the joint US-Israeli operation in Iran will be all but over. In fact,…
Trump’s rambling Iran address was full of wishful thinking
In his nationwide address on Wednesday, Donald Trump could not have been clearer about the course of the Iran war. It’s not ending…
Trump touts the successes of his war for peace
“Ceasefire!” Some people worried that President Trump was taking to the air waves tonight in order to declare a ceasefire with Iran. That, clearly,…
The three options facing Trump in Iran
As Trump contemplates a ground operation in Iran, he will be reckoning with the ghosts of previous western “excursions” in…
‘We’re into 1973 territory now’: How bad could the energy price crisis get?
The energy price surge caused by war in the Middle East has sent shockwaves through Westminster. It has pushed up…
Will Trump strike a ‘final blow’ on Iran?
Will America’s ground invasion of Iran begin in the early hours of tomorrow? Everybody knows, by now, that Trump likes…
Why every president ignores Congress on war
Is there a plausible legal basis for going to war with Iran? Senate Democrats say no, and late yesterday forced…
Iran’s strike exposes the danger of the Chagos handover
In a sharp escalation, Iran attempted to strike the joint UK-US base Diego Garcia with two intermediate-range ballistic missiles. Both…
Trump should ditch the faux concern for the people of Iran
Live long enough and all your cherished memories of childhood will end up besmirched somehow. For many of us Boomers…
