How the UK Can Build Real Energy Sovereignty in an Age of Global Fragility If the global oil crunch marks the beginning of the age of energy fragility, then the UK faces a question it has spent decades avoiding: what does sovereignty mean when energy becomes the organising principle of global power? The country that … Continue reading
How the 2026 oil crunch could spiral into a global rupture The FT Weekend headline — “Oil market four weeks from crunch” — reads like a warning whispered through the polite grammar of financial journalism. But beneath the restrained phrasing lies something far more consequential: the early architecture of a systemic crisis. The numbers are … Continue reading
For most of the world, the Houthis appeared suddenly: a ragged insurgency from Yemen’s northern highlands that seized a capital, defied a Saudi‑led coalition, and then—almost impossibly—began shaping global shipping routes. But the movement known as Ansar Allah is not a creature of the last decade. It is the modern expression of a thousand‑year Zaydi … Continue reading
UKIP gathered at the steps of the Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral on the afternoon of the 21st of March for a march and rally to be addressed by their leader, Nick Tenconi. I attend Sunday Mass at this cathedral, and the local Dean had opposed this being used as a gathering place because the event was … Continue reading
How a micro‑union led by a think‑tank director is experimenting with a new model of worker advocacy Solidarity Union’s 2026 Annual General Meeting in Edinburgh offered a compelling case study in how a small, agile union can carve out a distinctive role in the UK’s evolving labour landscape. For the Third Way think‑tank, the meeting … Continue reading
There are countries that drift into crisis, and there are countries that live inside it. Lebanon is now firmly the latter: a state hollowed out by economic implosion, governed by a political class that has outlived its legitimacy, and trapped on the fault line of a regional war it cannot control. The country is not … Continue reading