The Week That Shaped the World — 10–17 October 2025American Tomahawks for Ukraine — What’s the Real Game?It was one of those weeks when you could almost hear the world grinding its teeth.Missiles, markets, meetings — the usual trio of modern faith.
The Week That Shaped the World — 3–10 October 2025The Israel Hamas Peace Deal 2025 — A Handshake or a Holding Pattern?The Israel Hamas peace deal 2025 dared the world to use the word peace without irony for the first time in months.
The Week That Shaped the World — 26 September - 3 October 2025France Boards a Russian Tanker — and the Red Lines Light UpA Russian oil tanker seized off the French coast. Europe’s shadow war steps into the open.
1. Zelensky at the UN — A Warning Wrapped in DesperationIt started like every other UN gathering. Flags. Speeches. Polite clapping. The sort of theatre that convinces itself it still matters.
When Trump Pat the KingStagecraft, leverage, and Britain’s shrinking room to manoeuvre.
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.