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Europe’s left/right shift: Do the terms mean anything anymore?

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Europe's political direction has changed significantly since the beginning of 2025. However, while established centre-left parties have suffered electoral setbacks and conservative, nationalist and sovereignty-focused movements have gained influence, the movement is not uniform - as it has been in Latin America - nor is it confined to traditional party divisions. In several countries, the

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Calm Deliberation Disentangles Every Knot

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Canada’s trade talks collapse with the US should not be viewed simply as another tariff dispute between neighbours. The timing, as with everythinapse with the g in today's world, matters. Prime Minister Mark Carney suspended negotiations on 21 August, little more than ten weeks before the 3 November mid-term elections in the US. Washington says

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Canada – Carney’s Plan

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Canada’s trade talks collapse with the US should not be viewed simply as another tariff dispute between neighbours. The timing, as with everythinapse with the g in today's world, matters. Prime Minister Mark Carney suspended negotiations on 21 August, little more than ten weeks before the 3 November mid-term elections in the US. Washington says

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Iran – a different conflict requires a different strategy

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US and Israeli military operations have damaged Iranian facilities and removed senior leaders but have not forced Tehran to change its strategic objectives. Attempts to weaken Iran through leadership targeting may have created opportunities for a younger and potentially more militant generation within the IRGC. Iran views the conflict as a struggle for regime survival

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The Western Balkans – the rising threat from Russia and the risks for Europe

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The Western Balkan states - Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, Albania, and North Macedonia - remain overlooked areas of potential investment. However, oft-cited risks of operating there include weak governance and political paralysis, unresolved conflicts and secessionist movements, the enduring presence of organised crime groups and foreign hybrid influence. These structural threats are considerable,

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Preparing for the day that systems go down

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For several decades, technological progress has been treated almost soley as improvement. Faster computers, permanent connectivity, satellite navigation, cloud storage, artificial intelligence and increasingly sophisticated communications, have transformed civilian life, government and business. Yet, a counter-trend is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore. In some environments, particularly those involving security, intelligence and critical infrastructure, older and

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The Globalists are losing their grip

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Globalist interests have enjoyed considerable influence for many decades. However, that position is now changing and at an increasing pace. Putting aside Iran and Ukraine for the moment, the world is at war between those who believe in protecting and building their countries and those who are driven to financially liquidate them to increase their wealth,

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Why Turkey and Erdogan are now the centre of Trump’s attention

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President Trump effectively said it himself. He went to Ankara to see President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and made clear that he would not have made the journey for most other leaders. He also said plainly that he stood with Turkey. Those remarks matter because they reveal that the NATO summit itself was almost just a

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The war before the mid-terms: red flags for America’s political future

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The US is moving toward the mid-term elections under conditions that no longer look like normal democratic competition. Abroad, the Ukraine war is being pushed into a new phase, Iran is an on-again-off-again switch remaining a live trigger point, China is testing missiles while using minerals and diplomacy to test the Indo-Pacific order, and energy

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In the shadows of BRICS, a different alignment is forming

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Not so long ago, BRICS dominated geopolitical commentary. Every conference, summit and economic forecast seemed to revolve around the rise of a new power bloc challenging Western influence. Yet today, discussion of BRICS appears noticeably muted. Perhaps this is because the world's strategic landscape has evolved beyond the framework through which BRICS was originally understood.

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