Caught in the Crossfire: Capt. Ajay Pant The prosecution of Indian Master Capt. Ajay Pant, following Britain’s seizure of the tanker SMYRTOS, deserves closer international scrutiny. Calling it simply a campaign against Russia’s so-called shadow fleet is highly misleading. Britain itself has, and continues to, benefit from Russian oil trade. According to an investigation by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), between the beginning of Britain’s Russian oil b

Part 2: Seven decades after the Suez crisis, Britain’s relentless prime ministerial churn reflects a nation still searching for a durable post-imperial settlement. Anthony Eden with Gamal Abdel Nasser If Keir Starmer’s resignation last month has a deeper significance, it lies not in the circumstances of his departure but in what it reveals about modern Britain. The country’s recent political turbulence is often attributed to Brexit, immigration, economic stagnation or the dis