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It was yet another unwelcome development for Mark Zuckerberg’s technology titan Meta, the parent company of Facebook. The High Court
There has been a fascinating, near unanimous condemnation among the cognoscenti about the seemingly careless addition of Jeffrey Goldberg of
There has been a fascinating, near unanimous condemnation among the cognoscenti about the seemingly careless addition of Jeffrey Goldberg of The...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is waging a war on many fronts. He has ended the tense ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza in spectacularly...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is waging a war on many fronts. He has ended the tense ceasefire with Hamas
The International Olympic Committee, the sporting world’s equivalent of a white-collar crime family, has made its decision on who will succeed the...
Bad ideas do not necessarily die; they retire to museums of failure and folly, awaiting to be revived by the
There is much talk in this age of heaving tech behemoths about the digital town square, where views can be
The International Olympic Committee, the sporting world’s equivalent of a white-collar crime family, has made its decision on who will
If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your only option. This is proving very much to be the
The influencer might be defined as a modern, junked cretin of arrested moral and ethical capacity – with specific skills. Such an individual, for...
With the Ukraine War and the retreat of the United States from what has routinely been called Europe’s security architecture, states are galloping...
The influencer might be defined as a modern, junked cretin of arrested moral and ethical capacity – with specific skills.
With the Ukraine War and the retreat of the United States from what has routinely been called Europe’s security architecture,
The time has come for arguably the sporting world’s most famous mafia organisation to select its new chief. The various turf-conscious...
The time has come for arguably the sporting world’s most famous mafia organisation to select its new chief. The various
We live in dangerous times, and politicians are happy to be cheerleaders of that supposed fact. They do not care
The critics are utterly beside themselves in trying to understand the bruising odds and turns of Donald J. Trump, the reality showman and business...
The urge to throw more money at defence budgets across a number of countries has become infectious. It was bound to happen with Donald Trump’s...
The urge to throw more money at defence budgets across a number of countries has become infectious. It was bound
The singular antics of US President Donald Trump, notably towards supposed allies, has stirred the pot regarding national security in
There is something deeply moving about the ignorance and scatty nature of politicians. At points, it can even be endearing. In the apparently...
There is something deeply moving about the ignorance and scatty nature of politicians. At points, it can even be endearing.
There was a revolting tabloid quality to the Oval Office reception given to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on February 28, but then again,...
The conduct of live-fire exercises by the People’s Liberation Army Navy Surface Force (the Chinese “communists”, as they are called by the...
The conduct of live-fire exercises by the People’s Liberation Army Navy Surface Force (the Chinese “communists”, as they are called
Guantánamo Bay has been a fiendish experiment in US law for decades. The fiendishness lies in the subversion. Operating as
Never allow intelligence chiefs to speak publicly. Their prerogative lies in lying, their reassurance, cool deception. While the attractions of...
Cowardice is the milk that runs in the veins of many event organisers, especially when it comes to those occasions that might provoke the unmanaged...
Never allow intelligence chiefs to speak publicly. Their prerogative lies in lying, their reassurance, cool deception. While the...
Soppy, soapy and interminable, the Australian series Neighbours, the staple for millions of British (and Australian) watchers for years, their tonic...
Cowardice is the milk that runs in the veins of many event organisers, especially when it comes to those occasions
Soppy, soapy and interminable, the Australian series Neighbours, the staple for millions of British (and Australian) watchers for years, their
This is Pablo Picasso the way he is rarely seen – at least in so far as the hundred or so pieces at the British Museum’s Picasso: Printmaker have...
The US aid program began in earnest in the early stages of the Cold War, with an intention to beat
The rampaging antics of a querulous, sociopathic tech oligarch as he busies himself identifying which government departments to raid, trim, if not...
The rampaging antics of a querulous, sociopathic tech oligarch as he busies himself identifying which government departments to raid, trim,
President Donald J. Trump likes teasing out the unmentionable, and the Israel-Palestinian situation was hardly going to be any different. With a...
It has had a rebarbative, blighting effect across the entire aviation industry. The Ryanair model, for want of a better
It has become something of a fixation in the Donald Trump war chest of options that cowing, discomforting and baffling his various counterparts on the...
On October 23, 2023, the British Library, one of the world’s finest repositories of knowledge, was subjected to a cyber-attack.
It cuts against the grain of the Teutonic character. Instead of steely no-nonsense efficiency, we see gross lethargy in moving people across...
It cuts against the grain of the Teutonic character. Instead of steely no-nonsense efficiency, we see gross lethargy in moving
There have been politicians who have fancied themselves as poets. There was Herman Van Rompuy in April 2010 who, when
Bugging, in the context of intelligence, is natural for the buggee. Those who approve it and engage in such a
In April last year, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini told the United Nations Security Council that “an insidious campaign to end...
Twinning the terms “ceasefire” and “Gaza” seems not only incongruous but an obscene joke. This is largely because the ceasefire announced...
Twinning the terms “ceasefire” and “Gaza” seems not only incongruous but an obscene joke. This is largely because the ceasefire
A stillborn agreement treated as thrivingly alive; an understanding celebrated as consensual and equal. The AUKUS security arrangement between...
On January 6, the Pentagon announced that it had “resettled” 11 Yemeni men to Oman after detaining them over two decades without charge at the...