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Editor in chief: Said Batrouni
PEN Name: Marcos Fidel
Sabotage? A Russian vessel dropped anchor in British waters
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Sunday 1 February 2026 When a Russian-flagged cargo ship drops anchor, that is normally a […]
Eight sanctioned shadow fleet vessels passing through the English Channel
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Sunday 1 February 2026 The sight of eight sanctioned Russian “shadow fleet” vessels transiting the […]
The Russian mobile data ban
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Sunday 1 February 2026 Russia’s newest experiment in information control is not, strictly speaking, a […]
A day in Kramatorsk on the eastern front
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Sunday 1 February 2026 A day in Kramatorsk begins without ceremony. There is no clean […]
Trafigura’s new deals with India: non-Russian barrels
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Sunday 1 February 2026 In the normally opaque world of oil trading, a single phrase […]
Have large language models discredited journalism?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Sunday 1 February 2026 A quiet question now hangs over almost every article we read […]
Russian Urals crude offshore storage
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Saturday 31 January 2026 In the winter of 2026 a small but telling spectacle has […]
Fixing Ukrainian conscription
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Saturday 31 January 2026 President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s instruction to Ukraine’s newly appointed Defence Minister, Mykhailo […]
Can the United Nations really collapse for lack of money?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Saturday 31 December 2026 The warning from António Guterres that the United Nations could face […]
Britain is drinking less
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 30 January 2026 The United Kingdom is drinking less than she used to. That […]
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