supercharging climate denial, boosting fossil fuels.....

There’s no doubt that 2025 has been one of the most politically chaotic years of the 21st century.

There’s no doubt that 2025 has been one of the most politically chaotic years of the 21st century.

"I am standing here in this exquisite Chapel of St George at Windsor Castle, so close to where my beloved mother, the late Queen, is laid to rest with my dear father.

A recent article in the establishment security journal Foreign Affairs makes the case for nuclear proliferation among America’s allies. Not only are its arguments unsound, but they also understate the willingness of the US’s rivals to respond in kind.

President Donald Trump has announced that the US will keep or sell oil confiscated from Venezuela – what precedent does it set?

A city reveals itself only in motion; to stand still is to know nothing essential of it.

For the past 35 years, Carmelo Lombardo has never missed a Christmas working in the same stand at the Sydney Fish Market.
But this year, the last Christmas at the cornflower blue concrete structure before the new fish market opens next year, the 36-hour trading blitz feels bittersweet.
Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has unveiled a 20-point draft peace framework which he claims Kiev has been discussing with the US, presenting the document as a proposed basis for ending the conflict with Russia.

Ursula von der Leyen’s perma-smile is morphing into a rictus grin.
2025 could have been the year the six-year Commission president made her long-held ambition to make the EU a geopolitical powerhouse a reality.