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Review: Ankit Panda and Frank Close offer little hope on managing nuclear threats
In The New Nuclear Age, Panda starts from where Close, in Destroyer of Worlds, concludes: “at the precipice of Armageddon”.
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John Freeman
Oil prices spike on Middle East conflict
The world may be less sensitive to oil prices than in the past, but it is not immune from them.
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Ian Stewart
Iran’s regime stuffed - what if the autocratic CRINK is losing?
The Iranian regime made fatal miscalculations that undermine the axis of countries working for the defeat of the West.
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Iain Martin
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Israel's strikes on Iran are unlikely to end soon
The Reaction Daily Briefing will be taking a summer break for a week and returns on Monday 23 June.
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Caitlin Allen
Fishermen’s voices must be heard amid Attenborough ocean propaganda
Fishing deserves a better press. Those who make their livelihoods from the sea have the most to gain from marine protection.
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Jenny Hjul
Glyndebourne’s Parsifal is a travesty. No storyline goes unmauled
For this opera to remain the dazzling mystery that Wagner intended, some plot essentials have to be observed.
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Gerald Malone
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Reeves review: how not to spend £113 billion
Few of the Chancellor’s grands projets are likely to be realised. A lack of enterprise and money reduces her fine words to little more than a £113bn…
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Neil Collins
Israel can damage Iran’s nuclear sites but it can’t destroy them - without the US
Only the US has the air capability to get into the most heavily fortified Iranian nuclear sites.
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Tim Marshall
Is Israel readying to attack Iran?
Speculation that Israel is getting ready to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities is mounting today, after the US State Department ordered the evacuation of…
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Caitlin Allen
Unleash real deregulation - or it's goodbye London
Businesses, homegrown or otherwise, are shrinking from Britain's capital market. Without a massive overhaul of the UK's regulators, the pattern will…
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Isaac Goldring
When did nuclear power become “clean”?
A lunge towards nuclear is the worst possible path for a world aspiring towards “clean” energy. It poses a major security risk too.
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Gerald Warner
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Reeves attempts to win back voters by investing in Britain's renewal
Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride has accused Rachel Reeves of delivering a “spend now, tax later” review, after the Chancellor laid out her long-awaited…
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Caitlin Allen
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