The word spans too much and clarifies too little

“When you have an extended period of prosperity with no existential war, there’s no cleansing function..."

FDI has slumped as businesses are warned to take on burden of protecting their staff if Beijing attacks

Both this government and the last are implicated in a cover-up that will cost the UK billions

Use of secure rooms and secrecy classifications may have been ignored in government-wide emails during chaotic Kabul evacuation

Successive UK governments gagged the media over a leak that put thousands at risk of Taliban reprisals

Significant decisions affecting immigration and the UK’s fiscal deficit were hidden in effort to protect Afghans

Artificial general intelligence, or AGI, is an AI that possesses human or superhuman capabilities. If AGI emerges, how might it affect global power dynamics—or even fundamentally alter the existing...

Donald Trump’s tariff threats are just part of a much wider shift. Gillian Tett explains why commerce is being subordinated to statecraft — and how we can adapt

The country’s latest sanctions are proving far more effective than prior efforts

With US support for transatlantic security faltering, Nato nations are fortifying the eastern frontier with Russia

With peaceful norms fading, a new weapon has made conflict cheaper and easier 

The assassination of nuclear scientists has deepened the sense that scholars have become targets of geopolitical violence, says Roohola Ramezani

The climate shocks that could trigger wider market turmoil

London-based group raises $135mn amid surge of interest in defence sector