Theme: Global affairs

Global affairs

How might the world change if oil cost just $10 per barrel?

BY Tim Montgomerie / < 1 min

In Mugabe’s fall we also see the fall of the West – and the ascent of China

BY Liam Halligan / 8 mins

Podemos walks a tightrope on Catalonia

BY James Bloodworth / 11 mins

Sound as a barrel: Russia is surprisingly insulated from the effects of bottom-dollar oil

BY Liam Halligan / 7 mins

Just because Priti Patel resigned doesn’t mean we shouldn’t listen to her on the Golan Heights

BY Douglas Murray / 5 mins

Mainland Europe’s most important radical party doesn’t just seek seats – but ‘hegemonia’ too

BY James Bloodworth / 13 mins

Shi’a-Sunni relations are already volatile. $10 oil could make it even worse

BY Sean Oliver-Dee / 4 mins

A lesson from New Zealand: neither left nor right can afford to ignore populism

BY Henry Olsen / 6 mins

Is MbS a religious reformer, or just an ambitious Saudi technocrat?

BY Michael Burleigh / 7 mins

Should Congress allow Trump’s finger on the nuclear button? ‘Probably certainly.’

BY Allan Mallinson / 5 mins

Why the NFL should be stopped at the school gate

BY Amanda Whiting / 11 mins

Wars and words: a crude history of oil prices

BY Michael Burleigh / 9 mins