The west has to dramatically “reboot” its approach to dealing with aggressors in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to UK foreign secretary Liz Truss. “Geopolitics is back”, she told an audience at the Mansion House in London recently in what has been reported as a major foreignContinue Reading
Shampanskiy/Shutterstock The UK business secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng, said that closing the bars in parliament would be “excessively puritanical” as a response to concerns about a culture of inappropriate and sexist behaviour in the UK’s House of Commons. However, alcohol does impair decision-making – and my research shows that UK MPsContinue Reading
SIR Keir Starmer WILL be investigated by police over his Beergate lockdown scandal after “significant new information” came to light. Cops today finally announced a probe into the Labour leader’s suspicious beer and curry bash in April 2021 amid mounting pressure. Sir Keir Starmer today after discovering he’s facing aContinue Reading
From surveillance to search-and-rescue, consumer drones are having an unprecedented impact on Ukraine’s defense against Russia.Continue Reading
Russia is reported to have held drills this week simulating “nuclear-capable strikes”. According to a statement by Russia’s ministry of defence, forces of the Baltic Fleet in the Kaliningrad region, conducted training sessions to “deliver mock missile strikes with the crews of the Iskander operational-tactical missile systems”. The Iskander hasContinue Reading
The upcoming election in the Philippines presents the country with a stark choice to set its political course for the next six years. Outgoing authoritarian president Rodrigo Duterte leaves behind a country much damaged by his time in office. Economic decline, a brutal “war on drugs” – for which heContinue Reading
Aleksandr Podgorchuk/Kommersant/Sipa USA The Russian Baltic Fleet has announced that it carried out a series of simulated missile strikes of its nuclear-capable Iskander system. This is not the first time that the Russian exclave – roughly the size of Northern Ireland and wedged between Nato and EU members Poland andContinue Reading
Two months into the war the temperature of the rhetoric on both sides is warming considerably, exacerbating the conflict between Washington and Moscow, despite the US not being directly involved in the fighting. Russia has tested both intermediate-range and intercontinental ballistic missiles, the latter with a sufficient range to reachContinue Reading
The country has ordered companies operating VPNs to collect user data and hand it over to officials—but they’re refusing to do so.Continue Reading
Recent video footage showing British aid worker Paul Urey wearing handcuffs has sparked outrage in the UK. The 45-year-old from Warrington in Cheshire made several comments critical of the UK media’s reporting of the invasion, which his mother dismissed as her son “not acting in his natural way”, implying someContinue Reading
