The central question raised by Donald Trump’s disclosure that he came within hours of launching what he described as the largest American military strike since the Second World War is not whether the threat was credible, but whether the diplomacy…
There is something quietly extraordinary about a government agreeing to hand a foreign state £662 million of public money, and then watching that state’s officials announce, with apparent equanimity, that they have no solution to the problem the money was…
The United States has struck Iran directly, in what the Pentagon framed as a measured but forceful answer to a sustained campaign of Iranian aggression against American military personnel in the Middle East. The sequence of events began with what…
A Mansion’s Long Decline When casino mogul Steve Wynn quietly began shopping his Beverly Hills estate, Villa Lulu, in 2020, he floated an off-market figure of $135 million. That number reflected the confidence of a seller who had spent years…
A Mayor’s Arrest Threat and Its Consequences Benjamin Netanyahu has publicly blamed New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani for stoking the antisemitic climate he believes led to the stabbing of a Jewish man outside a synagogue on the Upper West…
Spain’s coastline is in crisis — and the bill is rising. A new report from Greenpeace, Destrucción a toda costa 2026, concludes that the Spanish littoral has reached a state of “unprecedented fragility”, the product of decades of intensive urban…
At the end of Arlington Memorial Bridge, where the Potomac bends and the Lincoln Memorial gazes across the water, federal planners are quietly contemplating a rather dramatic addition to Washington’s skyline. A 250-foot granite arch, crowned with a golden winged…
Within the span of a single week, two men were shot dead by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents — one in Houston, Texas, the other in Biddeford, Maine — neither encounter captured on camera. The absence of footage left investigators,…
A Family Defined by Extremism In April 2013, a young British man of Moroccan heritage boarded a flight bound for Syria. Sufean Kamal — also known as Sufyan Mustafa — was thirty-one years old, a former computer sciences student, and…
The UK Health Security Agency has recorded more than 1,000 cases of travel-associated illness across England, Wales and Northern Ireland in the first half of 2026, with malaria, dengue fever, enteric fever, chikungunya, and Zika virus all featuring in the…