Britain’s Crown Dilemma: Three Futures and One Old Ghost
Where Are You Headed, My Beloved Britain?I did not expect my country to feel this fragile.
The Week That Shaped the World 5 - 12 September 2025
1. Poland’s Drone NightIt was late, the kind of night when farms sleep and even the dogs give up. Then the buzzing started — nineteen Russian drones slipping across the Polish sky. Not a storm, not even an air raid in the old sense.
The Week That Shaped the World 29 August - 5 September 2025
1. The SCO Summit – Drafting the Blueprint of Tomorrow’s WorldThe Tianjin summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation looked less like a meeting, more like theatre. Ten members lined up — Beijing, Moscow, New Delhi, Tehran, the Central Asian cast, even Minsk.
The Week That Shaped the World 22 - 29 August 2025
1. Braveheart in Dundee: A Child, a Knife, and a Nation’s UneaseBritain reeled this week after an extraordinary scene in Dundee.
The Week That Shaped the World 15 - 22 August 2025
1. Europe and Zelensky at the Emperor’s FeetVladimir Putin once sneered that the day would come when Europe’s leaders would scurry to Washington, wagging their tails at Trump’s feet. At the time, it was dismissed as theatre. This week, it looked like prophecy fulfilled.
The Alaska Summit 2025: An Agreement Without Signatures
A prologue in late-summer lightHistory does not always unfold in marble halls. Sometimes it arrives under a high August sky, with the long daylight of Alaska washing everything in cinematic clarity.
The Week That Shaped the World 8 - 15 August 2025
1. Trump & Putin: The Meeting That’s Already Been Written — On Alaska, Once Russian LandThey’ll sit down in Anchorage on Friday, but let’s not kid ourselves — this isn’t the start of anything. It’s the last page of a chapter drafted weeks ago. The map? Already sketched. The terms?
The Week That Shaped the World 1 - 8 August 2025
1. Trump & Putin: The Meeting That’s Already HappeningThe handshake hasn’t happened yet — but the consequences already echo.
The Week That Shaped the World 25 July - 1 August 2025
1. Ochakiv. Nothing Confirmed. Everything WorryingThere’s a rumour drifting in from the Black Sea. The kind that arrives without sound, but leaves a ringing in the ears.
The Week That Shaped the World 18 – 25 July 2025
1. Ukraine’s Eternal Square Dance: The Maidan Never DiesHistory doesn’t repeat — it just jumps up and down with a flag.
The Week That Shaped the World 11 – 18 July 2025
1. Trump’s Ultimatum to Putin: 50 Days or the Guns Return.Washington threatens weapons, Moscow hears a countdown.
The Week That Shaped the World 4 – 11 July 2025
1. Netanyahu’s Nobel Nomination for TrumpOn 8 July, amid chandeliers and calculated smiles at the White House, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu handed Donald Trump something no PR firm could forge: a letter to the Nobel Committee nominating him for the Peace Prize.