Geopolitics

Even nuclear can’t save us now…

When the Irish defenders of Aughrim Castle opened their ammunition boxes, they discovered that English musket balls were too big for French flintlocks.

Labour is paving the road to net zero with good intentions

Governments are abandoning net zero. Companies are abandoning net zero. But the UK is turning back to net zero. What could possibly go wrong?

Don’t worry, the government will save you

No political theory can explain the dysfunction of our institutions. Perhaps they’ve just gotten so big that they don’t care about what policies are imposed.

Wall Street sells investments, not capital gains

One of the great virtues of capitalism is that people can buy what they want... and get what they deserve.

The Olympics, hard power, oil wars and the US election

The Olympics is all about soft power, but in the Middle East, hard power still dominates, with scary implications for energy markets and the global inflation narrative.

The Olympics of debt and delusion

In today’s issue: The opening ceremony would’ve been called a freakshow The Fed lives in a dreamworld of its own The insiders take the money…

Giving renewables the subsea snip

Renewable energy is often lauded for its energy security. But this fails to take into account a dangerous new vulnerability: submarine energy warfare.

A rendezvous with a perverse and unpleasant destiny

What has happened to us all? Did we suddenly awake, one dark and woebegone morning, and decide to be stupid? Or, is it just part of the pattern?

Where are our ‘great men’ today?

How could they fail to stop a callow amateur, shooting from an obvious vantage at the man who must be the most obvious target in the whole world?