Geopolitics

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?