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
There are moments in British foreign policy when the country moves not by strategy but by gravitational pull—nudged, coaxed, or quietly dragged into someone else’s war. The current escalation with Iran has exactly that texture: incremental steps, each individually defensible, collectively forming a trajectory no one has openly chosen. It is the drift that should … Continue reading