UK
BUSINESS
On Catch-Up: UK Government Plans GPS ID Across Network Rail
UK launches pilot project allowing train passengers to pay fares via smartphone GPS tracking, simplifying travel and modernizing transport.
EUROPE
Rochdale: Britain Risks Importing America’s Mistakes on Crime and Ethnicity
Britain debates publishing ethnicity statistics whilst convicting seven men for exploiting vulnerable teenagers.
LIFESTYLE
Rats and Economic Neglect: Furry Problems of UK Cities
Across Britain’s streets, rats boldly roam in broad daylight, showing how economic neglect can lead to a growing biological problem.
EUROPE
Two Tragedies, One Narrative: How American Politics Crossed the Pond
Days after Charlie Kirk's assassination, 150,000 supporters took to London streets for a new style of British politics despite the different tragedies.
EUROPE
A Match to a Flame: Reform UK and Immigration
Reform UK’s hardline immigration plan, mass deportations, ECHR exit, and strict border controls, continues to shake British politics.
Popular
Anti-Bardella Performative Resistance Falls Short
Culinary protests splatter and legal verdicts land; Jordan Bardella rides economic fatigue to dismantle the cordon sanitaire shielding the French presidency.
Meloni in Manama: The Sakhir Declaration and Gulf Security
Missiles over Doha have turned the Sakhir Declaration from standard diplomacy into a survival blueprint, pushing the Gulf toward self-reliance and Europe ties.
The Rome-Moscow Connection: How Italy and Kyrgyzstan are Keeping Russian Trade Alive
While Europe builds a wall of sanctions against Russia, Italy has found a backdoor, shipping goods through the mountains to Kyrgyzstan.
EU-US Trade Talks: Price of Sovereignty on the Factory Floor
Brussels rejects trading digital sovereignty for tariff relief, leaving European steel workers to bear the heavy cost of a deepening transatlantic deadlock.
The Pope’s Turkey Visit: Eastern Mediterranean as Christianity’s Foundation
Pope Leo XIV's first papal journey to Turkey from 27-30 November 2025 placed the eastern Mediterranean once again at the centre of Catholic imagination, inviting Europe to reconsider how geography shaped its tradition.
