It is a pleasing paradox, a bright light at the end of a dark Middle Eastern tunnel. Just when the world is wondering how high […]
Author: Bill Emmott
With spring initiative, European loan, score is Advantage Ukraine
In Ukraine, spring brings hope for new crops after the long cold winter and every year since the Russian invasion in 2022 it has brought […]
Next, an Iran nuclear deal with Chinese characteristics
Pope Leo XIV and Giorgia Meloni should take comfort from the fact that the main thrust of Donald Trump’s attack on them contains a clue […]
Blockade v blockade fallout may be not just a world energy crisis
What a lively Sunday April 13 proved to be. We had the landslide defeat of Hungary’s Viktor Orbán; the predictable failure of 24 – some […]
Trump: With God on his side?
Well, it was quite a Sunday, what with Péter Magyar beating Viktor Orbán by a landslide in Hungary’s election, Rory McIlroy seeing off Scottie Scheffler […]
Five emerging themes for the Indo-Pacific from Trump’s Iran war
“This is not our war.” That phrase, used by some European leaders to explain why they have refused to send forces to join America and […]
Time to give the Trump-Putin-Orban axis a slap in the face
If you want to understand why the general election in Hungary April 12 will be geopolitically significant, and how today’s geopolitics are different from any […]