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Gulf, Starmer, Taiwan: the World Bets Against US Reliability

Editorial digest April 10, 2026 Last updated : 09:18 The American guarantee is fraying. Not in think-tank papers or diplomatic communiqués — in the actual decisions of actual governments, quietly recalculating their exposure to a Washington that can no longer be read like a treaty. That recalculation went public this week.

Deaths in the Channel, Terror at Home — Britain's Unfinished Business

Deaths in the Channel, Terror at Home — Britain's Unfinished Business

Editorial digest April 09, 2026 Last updated : 13:03 Four people drowned off the French coast on Wednesday trying to reach Britain in a small boat. Two men, two women — names we may never learn, lives reduced to a line in a news bulletin. The same week, a British citizen

While the World Watches Lebanon, the Wars That Don't Stop

While the World Watches Lebanon, the Wars That Don't Stop

Editorial digest April 09, 2026 Last updated : 13:02 The Lebanon ceasefire dominated headlines this week. Handshakes were exchanged, statements were read, and for a brief moment the diplomatic machinery appeared to function. But step back from the Middle East, and the picture looks far bleaker. The wars and threats

Labour's Support Is Fraying — And No One Knows Where It Goes

Labour's Support Is Fraying — And No One Knows Where It Goes

Editorial digest April 09, 2026 Last updated : 11:04 Eight people sat in a room in Birmingham Yardley last week. All of them voted Labour in 2024. Almost none of them plan to do it again. That finding, from a More in Common focus group published today, is more dangerous

The Ceasefire's Real Winners — And They're Not in Washington

The Ceasefire's Real Winners — And They're Not in Washington

Editorial digest April 09, 2026 Last updated : 11:03 The guns may have fallen silent between Washington and Tehran, but the scramble to claim credit — and dodge blame — is only getting louder. Twenty-four hours into the most fragile ceasefire the Middle East has seen in months, the outlines of a

Cooper's Mansion House Gambit and the Battles Britain Can't Avoid

Cooper's Mansion House Gambit and the Battles Britain Can't Avoid

Editorial digest April 09, 2026 Last updated : 09:17 Yvette Cooper stands at Mansion House today with a message aimed well beyond the City audience in front of her. The Foreign Secretary will demand that Lebanon be folded into the US-Iran ceasefire and that the Strait of Hormuz reopen fully

The Ceasefire Illusion — And the Reckoning Australia Can't Escape

The Ceasefire Illusion — And the Reckoning Australia Can't Escape

Editorial digest April 09, 2026 Last updated : 09:16 The ceasefire between Washington and Tehran is barely forty-eight hours old and already fracturing. Markets rallied on Tuesday's announcement, then sobered up. Oil is climbing again. Asian stocks slid overnight, and European indices opened in the red. The reason