Formula 1’s regulator uses a diverse toolkit of rules and penalties to deliver multiple objectives. This could hold lessons ...

Europe cannot affect the course of America’s latest reinvention, as it did 250 years ago. But it can adapt to a more unhappy ...

The memorandum restores the prohibition on the use of force, seeks a binding resolution at the UN to endorse a ‘final deal,’ and relies on multilateral institutions to implement it. But are the US and ...

Whoever is leading the country must deal with a fundamental shift in the UK’s most important relations – with the US and ...

Image — China's President Xi Jinping speaks during a bilateral meeting with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres ahead of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Tianjin on 30 August ...

This symbolic contrast is important. More than four years after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia has not been isolated in the way many Western governments expected or hoped. Large parts of ...

Since the US and Iran signed the memorandum of understanding (MOU) ending the war, much discussion has centred on the simple question of who won. There is no clear-cut answer. Washington and Israel ...

French President Emmanuel Macron appears to have had two goals for France’s Evian G7 summit which concluded on 17 June. First, to facilitate a constructive dialogue between President Donald Trump and ...

European governments, most of which rely on oil and gas imports to fuel their economies, have been nervously watching prices climb and storage levels fall in the weeks since the US-Israeli attack on ...

Image — A man shows a flyer inviting people to vote for presidential candidate Abelardo de la Espriella, reading 'If the tiger wins, Colombia wins', in Jamundi, Colombia, on 13 June 2026, Photo by ...

In this week’s episode of Independent Thinking, our experts discuss Sir Keir Starmer’s resignation and the challenges awaiting the Labour Party’s next leader. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer leaves ...

As Trump and Netanyahu fall out over Iran war – and how to end it – the Israeli prime minister is caught between US pressure and domestic opinion ahead of crucial elections.