A Cockpit Assault at 30,000 Feet On the morning of Wednesday, 30 September, a FlyDubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv became the scene of what UAE authorities have since characterised as an attempted terrorist attack. Hamam Al Hammami, an…
The British government’s announcement of new refugee resettlement routes for Afghan women and girls, unveiled in late September, has been received in some quarters as a belated act of conscience. It is, on closer examination, something rather more troubling: a…
A Deployment That Rewrites the Rules of Sahel Security When Algeria dispatched four Sukhoi Su-30 fighter jets to Niamey on the night of August 28–29, it was not merely responding to a crisis. It was making a statement about who…
The Scale of a Hidden Crisis Over the past decade, NHS Scotland has paid more than half a billion pounds in compensation to patients harmed by clinical negligence — a figure that represents not merely a financial liability, but a…
A data centre in Vineland, New Jersey, linked to a major Microsoft infrastructure deal operated 62 gas-fired generators without the required environmental permits for close to a year, releasing what independent experts estimate to be approximately 140 tons of nitrogen…
The embassy gates in Asmara closed quietly. No formal ceremony, no negotiated withdrawal — just the abrupt departure of ten Eritrean diplomats, expelled by Addis Ababa in a move that has now fractured one of the Horn of Africa’s most…
New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order Thursday appointing Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor in the alleged gang rape of a former Cornell University student by members of a campus fraternity in October 2024 — a…
In 1965, three years before Mauritius achieved independence from Britain, London detached the Chagos archipelago from the territory it was about to relinquish. The separation was administrative in form, but its consequences were to prove catastrophic in human terms. Britain…
What happened to the nurses? Between October 2022 and September 2023, ninety-two Pakistani nurses — the overwhelming majority of them women — were recruited for hospital positions in Saudi Arabia under a visa category designated “Nurse Highly Qualified.” They were…
A Bilateral Arrangement That Could Not Survive Contact With Reality The scheme lasted less than a year. The UK-France “one in, one out” pilot agreement, announced with considerable fanfare by Prime Minister Keir Starmer and President Emmanuel Macron at a…