- In this issue14 articles
- Cover Article
The Sixteen-Minute Meeting That Ended a Government
How a sequence of cabinet resignations, electoral humiliation in Wales, and the blocked return of a popular mayor brought down Keir Starmer's premiership in less than a fortnight.
- Conflict
The Invasion That Wasn't Supposed to Happen: Russia Crosses into Ukraine
After months of denials and a decade of post-Soviet tension, Vladimir Putin ordered Russian forces across the border—launching Europe's largest land war since 1945.
- Technology
The Great Wager: Inside China's Audacious Bid to Dominate Artificial Intelligence
As Beijing pours hundreds of billions into AI whilst tightening ideological control over the technology, the world's most ambitious experiment in authoritarian innovation is rewriting the global tech landscape.
- Technology
The Memory Wars: How AI Ate the Future of Computing
From hourly pricing in DRAM markets to shuttered electronics firms, the world is running out of the one resource every digital device needs—and no one knows when relief will come.
- Economy
The First Shocks: How a Virus in Wuhan Rewrote the Rules of Global Commerce
From shuttered factories to cancelled Olympiads, the early months of Covid-19 revealed just how fragile the sinews of the world economy had become.
- Sport
The World Cup That Ate North America
When the 2026 tournament kicks off across three nations, it will be the biggest, longest, and most logistically improbable World Cup in history — a test not just of football, but of FIFA's ambitions and a continent's capacity to absorb them.
- Politics
The Seventh President: Peru's Endless Election and the Crisis That Won't End
As Keiko Fujimori and Roberto Sánchez fight to a statistical dead heat, the runoff vote exposes a decade of political collapse—and the organized crime networks that have filled the void.
- Sport
The Race That Never Stays the Same: Austria's Enduring Theatre of Fortune
At the Red Bull Ring, where champions are made and unmade in moments, the Austrian Grand Prix has written twenty years of Formula One's most dramatic chapters — and secured another two decades to come.
- Health
The Variant No One Was Ready For: How Bundibugyo Ebola Broke Through
When a long-dormant strain emerged in Congo's Ituri province this May, the international health architecture faced a test it had spent years trying to avoid — and the cracks are showing.
- Conflict
The Closing Hour: How Three Weeks of War in Iran Pushed the World to the Brink
A conflict that began on 28 February has severed the arteries of the global economy, leaving governments from Manila to Nairobi scrambling to ration fuel, slash taxes, and prepare their citizens for a crisis no one thought would come this fast.
- Politics
The Summit That Moved a Border: France's G7 and the Price Switzerland Paid
When Emmanuel Macron chose Évian for the 2026 G7, he set in motion a security operation that would seal a frontier, deploy an army, and test the limits of neighbourly cooperation.
- Economy
The trillion-dollar bet: inside the SpaceX flotation reshaping American capitalism
Elon Musk's space company has pulled off the largest stock-market debut in history—and the real story isn't rockets, but a new model for monetising data centres in orbit.
- Politics
The Room Where It Happened: Inside the Fraught Rebirth of Israel–Lebanon Diplomacy
After 33 years of silence, Israeli and Lebanese negotiators are talking again — but the ghost of 1983, the shadow of Iran, and the blood of recent war make this the most precarious peace process in the Middle East.
- Disaster
The Heat That Came Too Early: Europe's Lethal Summer Arrived in Spring
A heat dome that shattered records from May through June killed more than a thousand people and forced a continent to confront how quickly climate change is rewriting the rules of survival.