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Germany
Germany’s AfD is no longer merely a protest party on the political fringe. Its rise reflects a deeper fracture inside the German postwar order itself: weakening economic confidence, migration backlash, institutional distrust and a growing belief among millions of voters that the political system no longer permits meaningful opposition outside an increasingly narrow establishment consensus.
Economics
World
Motoring
Israel
A late-night explosion near a missile-engine facility outside Beit Shemesh was described by Israel’s defence industry as a planned test. But the scale, secrecy and timing of the blast exposed the deeper anxiety of…
Economics
Two warning lights are beginning to flash simultaneously across the American economy: inflation is rising again while long…
Defence
Britain’s £1 billion order for new RCH 155 howitzers is being sold as rearmament, industrial renewal and NATO…
Donald Trump arrived in Beijing seeking more than trade deals. Behind the ceremony of the first day of…
Science
China
Britain
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
China
China’s rise was not the triumph of capitalism over socialism. It was the construction of a hybrid system in which markets generated growth, private…
Economics
The Iran crisis is beginning to move beyond oil and into the hidden petrochemical systems that underpin modern consumer life.…
Defence
Britain is sailing through the South China Sea as if history has not moved. HMS Spey, a Royal Navy offshore…
Japan
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s tour of Vietnam and Australia looked like reassurance diplomacy: ceremonial gifts, smiling photographs and warm speeches about partnership. But beneath the theatre sat a harder reality. Japan is building a…
Economics
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Economics
Iran
Iranian state media claimed two missiles struck a US Navy vessel near Jask after IRGC warnings, raising the…
Iran
Project Freedom is presented as a humanitarian escort mission. But guiding ships through Hormuz means entering a narrow…
Economics
The Iran war is no longer only a military conflict. It is exposing the fragile economic system built…
Economics
Markets are no longer measuring the economy. They are measuring liquidity, policy expectations and concentrated capital power.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Economics
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Defence
Economics
Economics
Diplomacy has begun in Islamabad, but without direct US–Iran talks the economic damage continues to compound. The war is no…
Economics
The Middle East war is already pushing up fuel, freight, food and transport costs across India, Southeast Asia and Africa.…
Britain
Britain’s reliance on gas means global shocks still drive domestic costs. The Middle East conflict is not creating a new crisis. It is exposing an old structural weakness.
Iran
Germany
Iran
Russia