1. London Protests — Britain’s Street AwakeningWestminster didn’t breathe on Saturday. It growled. Bridges groaned under the weight of bodies, flags cracked in the wind, and the air smelled of smoke and sweat. I walked a few streets, and every corner felt like a drum.
How an estranged prince could become the emblem of dissent — and what the political playbook looks like when a country starts to wobble.There are two kinds of figures in politics.
Where Are You Headed, My Beloved Britain?I did not expect my country to feel this fragile.
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.
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.
1. Braveheart in Dundee: A Child, a Knife, and a Nation’s UneaseBritain reeled this week after an extraordinary scene in Dundee.
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.
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.
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?
1. Trump & Putin: The Meeting That’s Already HappeningThe handshake hasn’t happened yet — but the consequences already echo.
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.
1. Ukraine’s Eternal Square Dance: The Maidan Never DiesHistory doesn’t repeat — it just jumps up and down with a flag.