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
Britain’s sudden shift from refusing U.S. use of its bases to quietly enabling strikes on Iran exposes deeper questions about sovereignty, strategy, and the country’s long‑unresolved debate over its place in the world. A Reversal Too Fast to Be Credible Only weeks ago, ministers were emphatic: the United States would not be permitted to use … Continue reading
There is a particular kind of mission creep that doesn’t announce itself with fanfare. It arrives dressed as responsibility, framed as inevitability, wrapped in the language of “support,” “security,” and “peacekeeping.” Britain’s growing involvement in the Ukraine–Russia war is exactly that kind of drift: incremental, quiet, and dangerously under‑examined. Two developments in particular demand scrutiny: … Continue reading