Andy's and John's Autumn Budget is cautious competent and what we all needed.

Can we compare the EU to a performative male? Liam Czop thinks we can.

With the Middle East aflame for the past three years, the European security situation growing increasingly dire, and discussions of political tensions often looking at the Atlantic relationship over the Pacific, it can be easy to forget about the sizable elephant in the room of geopolitics - the United States military itself has come under fire for supposed neglect of this vital theatre. But amidst controversy regarding the accidental transfer of sensitive US military compone

Can Kemi Badenoch prevent The Conservative Party from becoming Reform-lite?

As Israel enters its first general election since the October 7th attacks on Israel by Hamas and its political and military allies within the Gaza Strip, the European Parliament’s second largest political group, the Socialists and Democrats (S&D) Group, convened on the 9th September to discuss a new roadmap in the European Parliament’s foreign policy approach towards the Middle East region. The S&D Group President and MEP Iratxe Garcia Perez focused her speech on the proposed

The recently signed UK-Kazakhstan Strategic Partnership Agreement signals further expansion of Western capital into Central Asia’s critical minerals sector and Kazakhstan’s increased engagement with Western capital. However, international investors from both sides face a structural paradox: while there is a presence of legal bodies that operate on international law, the wider legal mechanisms are built on substantially different legal bases. Ignoring these tensions between di

Trump may not be versed in The Art of Diplomacy, but his foreign policy is looking more and more like The Art of Diesel.

How Mark Carney went from the Bank of England to challenging Trump for leadership of the free world.

Ferdinand Foch, a French general during the First World War, fighting alongside Indian soldiers at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle in 1915, spoke glowingly of them, many of whom died there. He told them: “Return to your homes in the distant, sun-bathed East and proclaim how your countrymen drenched with their blood the cold northern land of France and Flanders, how they delivered it by their ardent spirit from the firm grip of a determined enemy; tell all India that we shall wat

The anxious generation, the bedroom generation or is it just hikikomori?

Rejoining Europe might not be such a good idea. Does Canada have the right one?

Like other parts of the UK, Northern Ireland has multiple dialects. Variation can be significant; someone in Derry/Londonderry may use words and an accent unfamiliar to someone from Belfast, less than a one-hour drive away. This diversity of English can serve as a positive talking point or a source of craic in everyday settings. Those dialects, slang, and accents have been richly influenced by historical transmission and exchange from other parts of the island, from Britain,

On 4 October Bosnia will head to the polls

In June 2024, Moldova formally launched EU accession negotiations at an intergovernmental conference. Since then, the country has moved from declaring its European ambition to adopting and implementing the rules required for membership. In June 2025 alone, Parliament adopted a new Electricity Law intended to integrate Moldova's energy market with the EU’s and a new Law on Medicines aligning the authorisation, manufacturing and monitoring of pharmaceutical products with Europe

Does the UK stand a chance in the race for AI?

Can the EU hold of the rise of Populist Nationalism? Not if Rassemblement National have anything to say about it.

Trump wrote The Art of the Deal, but his envoys in Moscow seem to have mastered the art of getting nowhere.

Ask most people about Northern Ireland and the Troubles come up first.

Washington wants the world to pick a side when it comes to AI. Beijing wants to shape the norms that govern it.

Romania has dodged the far right twice. Third time's the charm?