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Long Reads09 Jul
Strait of Hormuz on the edge: how a 'ceasefire' with Iran came apart in 72 hours

Long Reads09 Jul
Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar Report Overnight Air Defence Activity as Regional Tensions Snap Back Into View

Long Reads09 Jul
Iran strikes Bahrain: what the first hours of the retaliation tell us, and what they don't
Long Reads09 Jul
Gulf sirens and the war next door: Iran, the GCC, and the price of escalation

Long Reads09 Jul
China's Real Estate Collapse Has Eclipsed Two Decades of Household Wealth. The Demographic Fix Isn't Coming Fast Enough
Long Reads09 Jul
The Iran war and the BRICS question: what a US blockade would actually prove

Long Reads09 Jul
Sirens in the Gulf: How a Single Night of Air-Defence Alerts Reshaped the Iran-GCC Escalation Calculus

Long Reads09 Jul
China's Two-Track Labour Gamble: Keeping Older Workers On The Payroll As Property Wealth Vanishes

Long Reads09 Jul
Washington Rewrites the File on Damascus: The Slow-Motion Delisting of Syria
Long Reads09 Jul
Iran's Midnight Volley: What Bahrain's Sirens Reveal About a Widening Gulf Confrontation
Long Reads09 Jul
Health freedom, frothy markets and a Fed that won't blink: three under-reported signals from 8 July 2026
Long Reads09 Jul
Meta's AI glasses problem isn't privacy. It's that the company can't stop collecting data

Long Reads09 Jul
Platner Out, Iran Ceasefire 'Over': A 24-Hour Test of Trump's Deal-Making Doctrine

Long Reads09 Jul
Trump pulls the ceasefire and reaches for the twenty-to-one: what the 8 July escalation with Iran actually tells us
Long Reads09 Jul
Twelve tankers, two ceasefires, one escalating cycle: how a Gulf airspace snapshot exposed the brittle US-Iran truce

Long Reads09 Jul
Trump's Iran Ultimatum Collides With a Deal He Says Tehran Wants

Long Reads08 Jul
Trump's Iran Calculus: What 'Make a Deal' Really Means When Threats, Oil, and Greenland Are All in Play
Long Reads08 Jul
Two theatres, one American president: how Trump's parallel Iran and NATO shocks redraw the Western alliance

Long Reads08 Jul
A Twenty-to-One Beat: Trump, Tehran, and the Repricing of American Air Power
Long Reads08 Jul
The War Trump Wants to Leave: Inside the Rhetoric That Won't Let It End
Long Reads08 Jul
The Ceasefire That Wasn't: How a Single Night of Strikes Rewrote the US-Iran Calculus
Long Reads08 Jul
Ceasefire, Then Thunder: How the U.S.–Iran Calm Broke in a Single Night
Long Reads08 Jul
Three markets, one anxiety: S&P froth, a stalled Fed pivot, and a Taiwan shipbuilder that bets on the wrong weather
Long Reads08 Jul
"Defeated," "over," "knocked down": Inside a single day of Trump rhetoric on Iran

Long Reads08 Jul
Counting the Lies: How a Fake-Capacity USB Market Reveals the Trust Deficit Underpinning Global E-Commerce

Long Reads08 Jul
Bandar Kangan and the New Calculus: Why Trump's Strikes on Iran Break a Decade of Restraint
Long Reads08 Jul
A second wave: US expands strikes across southern Iran as Tabriz reports wobble

Long Reads08 Jul
Strikes on Chabahar and a Drone Downed: What the Geneva Ceasefire Did Not Stop
Long Reads08 Jul
The 24-Hour War: How a Declared Ceasefire Collapsed Into a Second Wave of US Strikes on Iran

Long Reads08 Jul
Trump Posts Strike Footage to Truth Social as NATO Cohesion Frays Around the Iran War
Long Reads08 Jul
Air Defences Light Up Isfahan: What the 8 July 2026 Strikes Tell Us About a War Without a Strategy
Long Reads08 Jul
Ceasefire in Name, Bombs in Fact: Trump's Iran Strike Resumption and the 80-Dollar Oil Tell

Long Reads08 Jul
Strikes on Bandar Abbas and Chabahar: what the sources actually show
Long Reads08 Jul
Chabahar in the crosshairs: a 24-hour air war over southern Iran, and what it tells us about escalation management
Long Reads08 Jul
Twelve Hours, One War: How Trump's Iran Calculus Collapsed On Itself
Long Reads08 Jul
Strikes on Chabahar: What the US–Iran Flare-Up on the Night of 8 July 2026 Actually Tells Us
Long Reads08 Jul
Ceasefire over, strikes resumed: Trump declares Iran 'defeated' as the air campaign reopens
Long Reads08 Jul
Iraq's Dollar Detour: How a Four-Month Cash Pause Reshaped the U.S.-Iran Periphery
Long Reads08 Jul
Strait of Hormuz flares: what an Iran–US escalation over a shipping lane actually means
Long Reads08 Jul
Five Projectiles at Sirik: What the Strike on a Small Iranian Port Tells Us About the New US-Iran Risk Curve
Long Reads08 Jul
A ceasefire he insists is already over: Trump, Iran and the rhetoric of escalation
Long Reads08 Jul
Strikes on Iran's Coast: What the Bushehr and Chabahar Reports Actually Tell Us

Long Reads08 Jul
US Strikes on Chabahar: A Narrow Window or the Opening Salvo of a Wider War?
Long Reads08 Jul
Blockade Redux: Washington's Strait of Hormuz Play Meets an Iranian Counter-Pivot

Long Reads08 Jul
OpenAI's July blitz: voice, search, and a quiet enterprise pivot
Long Reads08 Jul
Strikes on Iran: What the CENTCOM Announcement Actually Says — and What It Doesn't
Long Reads08 Jul
Tehran Under Fire: What 8 July's US Strikes on Iran Actually Reset
Long Reads08 Jul
Trump tears up the Hormuz script: blockade threat, ceasefire declared "over"
Long Reads08 Jul
Trump's orbit: oil rhetoric, a Qatar-bound jet, and a Space Force boast that lands somewhere between briefing room and rally
Long Reads08 Jul
Tehran's Patient Wins, Washington's Bluster Loses: The Iran File Recalibrates Under Trump
Long Reads08 Jul
Patriot on the table: Trump, Zelenskyy, and the air-defence deal that reframes NATO's Hague summit

Long Reads08 Jul
A Martyr's Handwriting and a Sacred Story: How Iranian State Media Re-tells Hussein for a Post-Khomeini Generation
Long Reads08 Jul
Washington and Tehran on a Knife-Edge: Eight Dead, Peace Talks Off, and an Open Threat

Long Reads08 Jul
Inside OpenAI’s $520M Bank of America Loan: What the Credit Line Says About the Coming IPO
Long Reads08 Jul
Meta's glasses, Meta's teens, Meta's exposure: one company, three regulator fights in a single Tuesday

Long Reads08 Jul
Tehran's calculated contempt: how Iran reads Trump's ultimatum
Long Reads08 Jul
Eight dead and a shaky globe: what the NATO summit tells us about the new US-Iran rupture
Long Reads08 Jul
Qaani in Karbala: A Quiet Realignment Inside the Shia Axis
Long Reads08 Jul
Trump on Iran at The Hague: an end to the ceasefire, a warning to the Strait, and a market that priced it in minutes
Long Reads08 Jul
Trump's Iran Message: Two Days, Two Tones

Long Reads08 Jul
The slip that wasn't: parsing Trump's "President Putin" gaffe and what Zelensky's Washington visit actually moved

Long Reads08 Jul
"I'm their number one target": Trump on the record about a war he says is already won

Long Reads08 Jul
A slip, a meeting, a relationship: parsing the Zelensky–Trump episode on 8 July 2026
Long Reads08 Jul
The Strait at the Edge: How the Hormuz Crisis Became Trump’s Iran War by Other Means

Long Reads08 Jul
Trump's three-trade-week: tariffs, regulation cuts, and the $250 bill that almost was
Long Reads08 Jul
Microsoft pulls its own models into Excel and Outlook — and the AI stack quietly reshuffles

Long Reads08 Jul
Le Pen's gambit: a 15-month ban, a 2027 run, and the stress test for France's mainstream parties
Long Reads08 Jul
Trump Floats Taking Kharg Island as Ceasefire Crumbles and Iran's Deep Stockpile Looms
Long Reads08 Jul
Strait of Hormuz in Flames: How a US-Iran Ceasefire Collapse Is Rewriting the Oil Map
Long Reads08 Jul
Trump scraps Iran truce, vows blockade: what the collapse of the ceasefire means for the Gulf and global markets
Long Reads08 Jul
The ceasefire that wasn't: Trump walks away from the Iran memorandum
Long Reads08 Jul
Bombing Iran to Bury the Epstein Files: How Two Stories Collided in a Single News Cycle

Long Reads08 Jul
"Islamic Republic of Japan": How a Presidential Slip Laid Bare the Fragility of US Strike Narratives

Long Reads08 Jul
'Only the beginning': Trump and Zelensky reset the public script, and Moscow's loudest voices are already on the wrong side of it
Long Reads08 Jul
NATO finds unity in the shadow of an escalating Iran confrontation

Long Reads08 Jul
Leverage and risk: the Hormuz crisis, the Lebanon withdrawal hint, and the shape of the next Middle East bet
Long Reads08 Jul
Trump tears up the Iran ceasefire: a 72-hour unraveling of oil markets, NATO, and the nuclear file

Long Reads08 Jul
After Nirim: How a Khan Yunis Airstrike Reframes the Hunt for October 7 Planners
Long Reads08 Jul
Spain Holds the Line: Madrid Rejects Trump's Trade Threat Over Iran War and Defence Spending
Long Reads08 Jul
Trump's Spain outburst and the Greenland fixation: a NATO summit that reread the Atlantic
Long Reads08 Jul
Hormuz on a Knife-Edge: How a 21-Mile Waterway Became the Flashpoint of the Week

Long Reads08 Jul
A Supreme Leader's Final Journey: Khamenei's Coffin Reaches Najaf
Long Reads08 Jul
China's Two-Track Play: Death Sentence for Graft, Overture to Washington Over Iran

Long Reads08 Jul
Meta's Muse image model lands in a market already saturated with suspicion
Long Reads08 Jul
Trump's Rewritten Rulebook: How 700 Deregulations Reshape Washington's Bargain With Itself
Long Reads08 Jul
Hormuz on the wire: Iran's strikes on Bahrain and Kuwait redraw the Gulf's risk map

Long Reads08 Jul
The Car, the Bribe, the Model: Three Signals from China in July 2026
Long Reads08 Jul
Iran's Hormuz Gambit: Sovereignty Claims, Tanker Attacks, and the Calculus of a Choke Point
Long Reads08 Jul
Tehran's Hormuz Calculus: Sanctions, Sovereignty, and the Oil Market's Three-Percent Wake-Up Call
Long Reads08 Jul
Trump tells Ankara summit the Iran ceasefire is "over": what the on-camera moment actually said
Long Reads08 Jul
The MoU that wasn't: Trump tears up the US-Iran understanding and resets the Gulf

Long Reads08 Jul
The 4% Solution: How a Greenland Provocation Became a Test of the Transatlantic Order

Long Reads08 Jul
Trump turns NATO summit into a tariff ultimatum, and Europe finds its leverage narrowing
Long Reads08 Jul
Bandar Abbas holds: how a night of strikes on Iran's southern coast unfolded without the damage Tehran says it avoided

Long Reads08 Jul
A flag in Atlanta: how a single gesture at the World Cup lit up the politics of the Arab street
Long Reads08 Jul
Strikes on Bushehr: What Three Iranian Wire Reports Actually Tell Us

Long Reads08 Jul
Explosions at Bushehr: what the early reporting actually says — and what it doesn't

Long Reads08 Jul
A Black Week for the Shadow Fleet: Ukraine's Sea-of-Azov Campaign and the Geography of Oil Sanctions
Long Reads08 Jul
Najaf's funeral cortège and the choreography of Shia political authority

Long Reads08 Jul