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Long Reads20 Jun
The Switzerland that never was: what Vance's cancelled Iran trip tells us about the next round of US diplomacy
Long Reads20 Jun
The Bitcoin Payment Network That Wants to Skip the Banks
Long Reads20 Jun
Trump's $350bn Ukraine bill: the politics of monetised generosity
Long Reads20 Jun
A photo op and a transatlantic rupture: how a Trump-Meloni spat pulled Italy's top diplomat off a US flight
Long Reads20 Jun
Ali al-Taher and the geometry of a southern Lebanon ground push
Long Reads20 Jun
Warsaw's Wounded Honour: The Polish Decision to Strip Zelensky of the White Eagle
Long Reads20 Jun
Trump's Iran Deal: What an Agreement That Doesn't Announce Itself Actually Says
Long Reads19 Jun
The Switzerland Channel: How Witkoff, Kushner, and a Postponed Vance Trip Signal a Narrower US-Iran Deal Window
Long Reads19 Jun
Israel presses south Lebanon offensive into Nabatieh hills as the diplomatic clock runs out
Long Reads19 Jun
Washington's Quiet Industrial Draft: How a Senate Amendment Is Rewriting the Defence Supply Contract
Long Reads19 Jun
Six Failed Hill, One Burning Tank: The Grind on Ali al-Taher and What It Says About Southern Lebanon
Long Reads19 Jun
The Photo That Wasn't: How a G7 Snap Broke a Trump-Meloni Truce
Long Reads19 Jun
A Family Firm, a Banking Charter, and the Architecture of Political Money
Long Reads19 Jun
Sixty days, one strait: parsing the Trump-Iran memorandum and the fight over who gets a vote
Long Reads19 Jun
The Ali al-Tahir fight: a southern Lebanon front that refuses to stay quiet
Long Reads19 Jun
The Nabatieh Tilt: A Single Lebanese Hill Tests a Fragile Ceasefire
Long Reads19 Jun
Trump's Camp David Weekend and the China Card: Reading a Faltering Iran Track
Long Reads19 Jun
A Hill Called Ali al-Taher: How a Single Lebanese Outpost Became the Defining Test of the November Ceasefire
Long Reads19 Jun
The Photo That Wasn't: How a G7 Selfie Became a Transatlantic Rift
Long Reads19 Jun
Strike in Idlib: what the early signals say — and what they don't
Long Reads19 Jun
Charles Schwab's Prediction-Market Bet and the Quiet Retailing of the S&P 500
Long Reads19 Jun
De-risking, ASML, and the trip to Türkiye: three notes on the new China file
Long Reads19 Jun
Trump's Friday-night diplomacy: Iran on a 60-day clock, Camp David at the centre of the frame
Long Reads19 Jun
A Lebanon ceasefire, an Iran deal on the table: what the next 72 hours will decide
Long Reads19 Jun
Six attempts on one hill: what the Ali al-Taher fight says about the southern Lebanon front
Long Reads19 Jun
Forty-eight hours that reopened the Gulf: the Lebanon-Israel ceasefire, the Hormuz reversal, and the diplomatic week the wires almost missed
Long Reads19 Jun
Sixty days, sixty billion barrels: the Iran deal the White House keeps describing
Long Reads19 Jun
Meloni and Trump Trade Insults at G7 as Anthropic Dispute Reignites a Bigger Argument
Long Reads19 Jun
A White Eagle Withdrawn: How a Ukrainian Unit-Naming Dispute Became a Polish-EU Test
Long Reads19 Jun
Indium, Leaf, Plans: Three Quiet Signals from China's Industrial Periphery
Long Reads19 Jun
The collapse of a meme coin and the quiet reordering of American attention
Long Reads19 Jun
The G8 that wasn't: how one membership decision shaped a decade of Western disarray
Long Reads19 Jun
Ebola in the DRC: An Outbreak Compounding Its Own Crisis
Long Reads19 Jun
The Begging Question: Trump, Meloni, and the Erosion of Diplomatic Stagecraft
Long Reads19 Jun
BHP's $2.3bn Canada write-down lands as the mining cycle turns: what the charge says about potash, politics, and the cost of getting the long-cycle bet wrong
Long Reads19 Jun
Warsaw pulls Zelenskyy's highest honour: how a unit naming opened a Polish–Ukrainian rift
Long Reads19 Jun
After the US-Iran deal: Corporate Japan reckons with a supply-chain new normal
Long Reads19 Jun
"Primitive genius": Trump, the Axios interview, and the limits of presidential diplomacy with Iran
Long Reads19 Jun
Indium, Leaf, Labour: Three Threads From Thursday That Sketch the Contours of a Squeezed Supply Chain
Long Reads19 Jun
"The Time Had Come": Trump Floats a Phased North Korea Deal, and Seoul's President Is Buying Time
Long Reads19 Jun
Cash, Fuel and Meme Coins: Three Threads of a Single 2026 Economy
Long Reads19 Jun
The $80 Billion Question: Washington's Iran Tab and the Talks That Weren't
Long Reads19 Jun
Iran's Hormuz Chokehold: How Tehran Rewrote the Rules of the Strait Without Firing a Shot
Long Reads19 Jun
Trump's Second-Term Foreign Policy Hits a Familiar Ceiling: Symbolic Wins, Structural Drift
Long Reads19 Jun
The Iran Deal, the $80 Billion Bill, and the Strange Geometry of a War That Markets Have Already Bought
Long Reads19 Jun
The Strait of Hormuz reopens — and a billion-barrel bill lands on the world
Long Reads19 Jun
Gas, Grids and Gatekeepers: Washington’s Three-Move Week on Energy, AI and the Public Sphere
Long Reads19 Jun
The Cost of the Iran Deal: $80 Billion, 2,000 Munitions, and a Question the Pentagon Hasn't Answered
Long Reads19 Jun
The Wearable, the Refinery, and the Tobacco Leaf: Three Fronts in China's Bid for Technological Sovereignty
Long Reads19 Jun
The Hormuz Bargain: How a 60-Day Pause Reshapes Oil, Crypto and the Dollar's Long Game
Long Reads19 Jun
Trump's Rocket-Licence Signal to Kyiv: A New Industrial Lever in the Long War
Long Reads19 Jun
The Licensing Question: What Trump's Rocket Comments Tell Us About the New Arms-Trade Geometry
Long Reads19 Jun
China's AI Stack Finds Its Shape: Classrooms, Robots, and a Critical Mineral Squeeze
Long Reads19 Jun
Hormuz in hush mode: what Iran's 60-day Strait fee waiver does — and doesn't — buy the markets
Long Reads19 Jun
Hezbollah's Qassem declares victory, accuses US-Israel of 'unprecedented conspiracy' — what the sources actually say
Long Reads19 Jun
Artillery Returns to Nabatieh: Reading the Fragile Ceasefire After the Shelling
Long Reads19 Jun
Trump's Iran MOU: A Deal Built on Air
Long Reads19 Jun
Burnham’s Makerfield earthquake and the limits of Starmer’s authority
Long Reads19 Jun
Sixty days on the Strait: how an Iran-US deal rewrote the oil market's risk premium in a week
Long Reads19 Jun
After the Hormuz deal: sixty days that could redraw Gulf shipping
Long Reads19 Jun
China is building the small, sharp tools of a long war of attrition
Long Reads19 Jun
China tightens the screws on indium as the AI supply chain takes a strategic turn
Long Reads19 Jun
Israel widens Lebanon air campaign as cumulative toll crosses 3,900 dead
Long Reads19 Jun
Hormuz reopens, sort of: inside the 60-day oil corridor test between Washington and Tehran
Long Reads19 Jun
Ceasefire, Then Strike: Inside the Day Lebanon’s Fragile Truce Came Apart
Long Reads19 Jun
A Hospice, a Thousand, and a 97% Wipeout: Three Threads From 19 June 2026
Long Reads19 Jun
China's quiet choke points: indium, tobacco, and the long game in Greater Bay Area planning
Long Reads19 Jun
A photo that never existed: how a Trump anecdote opened a transatlantic rift with Meloni
Long Reads19 Jun
The deal that didn't happen: what stalled US-Iran talks in Switzerland actually tell us
Long Reads19 Jun
What 'ceasefire' means when the strikes keep coming: Israel, Lebanon, and the gap between declaration and practice
Long Reads19 Jun
Beirut's ceasefire condition: what Berri's demand for an Israeli commitment actually shifts
Long Reads19 Jun
A 'ceasefire' on paper, a war by other means: Israel strikes southern Lebanon within minutes of the announced deal
Long Reads19 Jun
Ceasefire by announcement, strikes by air: Lebanon's southern towns absorb the first hours of an Israeli-Hezbollah truce
Long Reads19 Jun
A ceasefire that does not cease: what Israeli officials' own words reveal about the Lebanon arrangement
Long Reads19 Jun
Israeli strikes batter Nabatieh district in a single afternoon as southern Lebanon ceasefire teeters
Long Reads19 Jun
A Fragile Calm: Israel, Hezbollah, and the Day a Ceasefire Began With a Strike
Long Reads19 Jun
The thin line at the Litani: Israel, Hezbollah and the geometry of a ceasefire that isn't one
Long Reads19 Jun
The fifth ceasefire: Israel, Hezbollah and the architecture of announcement
Long Reads19 Jun
Israel and Hezbollah announce ceasefire as fifth such agreement this month tests the diplomatic track
Long Reads19 Jun
The 4 p.m. Arrangement: How a Narrow Lebanon Ceasefire Reshapes the Region’s Long Game
Long Reads19 Jun
Hormuz as Lever: How an Iranian Closure Threat Could Reshape the Middle East Crisis
Long Reads19 Jun
Trust deficit: How the Iran MoU opened a public rift between Washington and Tel Aviv
Long Reads19 Jun
Reliance Jio's $3.8bn Mumbai listing: a record Indian IPO, and a stress test for digital-infrastructure capital
Long Reads19 Jun
Tehran's $1.44bn crude sprint and the wreckage of the Swiss talks
Long Reads19 Jun
Sixty days at Hormuz: what the US-Iran memorandum actually bought, and what it didn't
Long Reads19 Jun
Tehran Reopens the Strait — and the Question of Who Controls It
Long Reads19 Jun
When the President Jokes and the Foreign Minister Walks: How a Trump Quip About Meloni Cracked the Transatlantic Script
Long Reads19 Jun
Israel flattens southern Lebanese villages as ministers signal indefinite occupation
Long Reads19 Jun
Hamas's al-Qassam Brigades salute Hezbollah as the 'resistance' framing hardens
Long Reads19 Jun
Off-ramp, or just a longer on-ramp? Israel’s Lebanon calculus and the Iran shadow
Long Reads19 Jun
The Strait That Holds the World Hostage: Iran's Hormuz Gambit and the Fragile Arithmetic of Global Energy
Long Reads19 Jun
More than 100 Israeli airstrikes in a day: what the 19 June 2026 Lebanon operation reveals about the shape of the next phase
Long Reads19 Jun
Jio's IPO and Ambani's AI bet: inside the most consequential shareholder letter of India's private sector
Long Reads19 Jun
Israel, Iran, and the United States: a ceasefire under three pressures
Long Reads19 Jun
Beirut's red lines, Israel's expanding air war: Aoun's ceasefire complaint and the slow collapse of the November 2024 arrangement
Long Reads19 Jun
Iran walks back from the table: the Lebanon clause and the geometry of the next negotiation
Long Reads19 Jun
Israel flattens Lebanon's border villages — and a doctrine steps into the open
Long Reads19 Jun
Israel, the United States, and the Iran deal: how a private Israeli grievance became a transatlantic rupture
Long Reads19 Jun
Israel's southern Lebanon offensive widens as US-Iran talks slip and a frontline village belt disappears
Long Reads19 Jun