Short: UK Increases Defence Budget
The United Kingdom has stepped up to meet the challenge of a more dangerous world today, as Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced that defence spending will increase to 2.5% of… Read more »
Category: Europe
2024: The Year We Save the World?
Happy New Year! 2024 is shaping up to be a doozie. It will be a year of elections, with 50 countries going to the polls to select new leaders and… Read more »
The Wagner Rebellion: Prigozhin’s Revenge
Yesterday, Russian private military company Wagner Group turned on the Russian Army, instigating a civil conflict within Russia. After months of threats and posturing in response to lacklustre support from… Read more »
Short: Biden in Ireland
US President Joe Biden was in Ireland this week, a trip commemorating the Good Friday Agreement and to tour the island, but felt more like a bit of a jolly… Read more »
NATO’s 31st: A New Iron Curtain?
NATO has this week welcomed its newest member state, with Finland becoming the thirty-first nation to sign the North Atlantic Treaty. Finland, a nation which has maintained strategic neutrality since… Read more »
The March Protests
This month has seen reports of incendiary protests and social unrest in nations across the world. The importance of freedom of assembly and speech is no less important now than… Read more »
Northern Ireland and the Windsor Framework: Sunak’s Gamble
Rishi Sunak today met with the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen in Windsor, Berkshire to reach what is hoped to be the final agreement on Northern… Read more »
Earthquake Tragedy on Turkish/Syrian Border
At around 1am GMT on Friday morning last week, a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck south-eastern Turkey and north-western Syria, causing unprecedented destruction and loss of life in the region…. Read more »