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ESSAY: London Climate Action Week — the UN between fossil fuels, AI and the Iran crisis
When United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres addressed the London Climate Action Week on June 23, 2026, he spoke beneath a heat wave threatening to…
OPINION: Trump vs Musk — the breakup threatening America's technological edge
It is hard to find in recent history a falling-out between two personalities as rich in potential consequences as the one between Donald Trump…
DECODING: AI as a weapon of state — Trump redraws the frontiers of exportable knowledge
At 5:21 PM on Friday, June 12, 2026, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick sent a letter to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. The contents…
ANALYSIS: June 2026 European Council — the EU at 27 searches for direction on Ukraine, China and budget
On June 18 and 19, 2026, the twenty-seven leaders of the European Union gathered in Brussels for a remarkably dense European Council. On the…
COLUMN: Alibaba Launches HappyHorse 1.1 — China Rushes Into the Void Left by the US
On June 13, 2026, the American government gave Anthropic 90 minutes to block access to its Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 models…
COMMENTARY: Media in crisis — when disinformation kills democracy more surely than bombs
In 2026, the Reuters Institute published a figure that should have triggered emergency sessions in every democratic parliament on the planet: global trust in…
FACT-CHECK: Did Trump really win peace with Iran? Five claims verified
On June 22, 2026, from the White House press briefing room, Donald Trump declared that he had "concluded the greatest nuclear disarmament deal in…
ANALYSIS: Inflation at 3.2% in the eurozone — the war in Iran showed up on your heating bill
On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel struck Iran. Four months later, the effect of that military decision has lodged itself in…
EDITORIAL: Striking Moscow is not escalation — it is coercion, and Ukraine is right to use it
On June 16 and 18, 2026, Ukrainian drones struck the Kapotnya refinery in Moscow — one of the largest refining facilities in Russia and…