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The Jarvis Layer: Why the Most Dangerous AI Is Not the Smartest One, but the One Closest to You

As AI intelligence becomes cheap and interchangeable, power shifts to the Jarvis layer: the always-on personal assistant that mediates daily life. This analysis explains why proximity, not intelligence, is the new AI chokepoint shaping autonomy, education, and governance.

India’s AI Reckoning: When Intelligence Becomes Cheaper Than Labour

India’s economic rise was built on exporting educated, English speaking labour at scale. Artificial intelligence is now collapsing the price of intelligence itself. As cognitive work becomes cheaper than human labour, India’s outsourcing and IT services model faces a structural shock arriving far sooner than policymakers admit. This analysis examines why reskilling narratives are failing and what is now at stake.

The Quote They Omitted: Delcy Rodríguez, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, and the Sequence Western Coverage Will Not Print

A single omitted quotation changes the meaning of a CIA visit to Caracas. When Delcy Rodríguez addressed the families of those killed in the January attack, she placed US intelligence engagement inside a family history of state killing. Western coverage reports the meeting. It omits the sequence that gives it meaning.

Britain’s Economy Is Not Broken. It Is Being Quietly Mismanaged

Britain does not feel like a country in crisis. That is precisely the danger. Growth limps on, spending rises, and the system appears stable. Yet beneath the calm language, the economy is losing its ability to tell success from failure. Prices no longer speak clearly, losses are concealed, and decline is administered rather than corrected.

The Perimeter Problem: How America’s Shows of Force Are Expanding Risk Instead of Control

The United States is not short of power. It is short of closure. From Iran to Venezuela, Greenland to the Red Sea, Washington’s reliance on visible coercion is widening its obligations faster than it secures compliance. The result is not imminent collapse or world war, but a growing mismatch between reach, endurance, and political outcome.

Putin Wants NATO Pushed Back to 1998. Ukraine Is How He Is Forcing the Issue

As Ukraine’s cities go dark, Vladimir Putin has hardened Russia’s war aims. Moscow now ties any peace in Ukraine to a broader demand that NATO retreat to its pre-expansion footprint, effectively back to West Germany as it stood in 1998. This is no longer a war over territory. It is a campaign to force a renegotiation of Europe’s security order.

The Magnificent Indian People: Resilient, Ingenious and Let Down by a Bureaucracy Built to Control

India’s ordinary people street vendors, small traders, farmers, and informal entrepreneurs are among the most resilient and hardworking on earth. They survive through courage and ingenuity, not because of the state, but in spite of it. The real failure lies not with markets or people, but with a bureaucracy designed to control entry, manufacture monopoly, and suppress competition.

Mundeshwari: Inside a Great Hindu Temple and a Civilisation That Endures

High on the Kaimur plateau, Mundeshwari Temple is not a relic or a monument but a living expression of a great Hindu civilisation. Unrestored, uninterrupted, and unexplanatory, it reveals how endurance, repetition, and ritual allowed a civilisation to survive while others vanished.

Sadiq Khan Warns of Mass Unemployment. AI Poses a Deeper Threat to London

London is not heading for mass unemployment. It is heading for class compression. As artificial intelligence reshapes white-collar work, service jobs endure, elite power concentrates, and the middle quietly erodes. The result is a city that keeps working while becoming poorer, narrower and more fragile.

Greenland Is Not the Prize. The Arctic Corridor Is

As Arctic ice retreats, the High North is being transformed from a frozen periphery into a strategic corridor. This chapter examines why Greenland matters not as territory or mineral wealth, but as fixed infrastructure anchoring military transit, sensing, and enforcement in a newly passable Arctic and why capability, not sovereignty claims, is shaping the redistribution of the North.

AI Will Not Just Take Jobs. It Will Break Identities

Artificial intelligence is usually framed as a jobs problem. That framing misses the deeper risk. The real shock is psychological: the rapid invalidation of skills, status, and expectations that once gave effort meaning. The danger is not unemployment alone, but the collapse of trust in work, institutions, and the future itself.

When Iran Went Dark, the Protests Lost Their Oxygen

When Iran shut down the internet in January, it did more than silence social media. It severed coordination, visibility, and momentum. This analysis explains how information control, Starlink disruption, and force on the ground stalled a protest movement many assumed was unstoppable.

HS2 as Mirror: How Britain Lost the Ability to Build, Govern, and Deliver

HS2 was meant to symbolise modern Britain. Instead, it exposes a deeper failure: the loss of state competence. From pandemic waste to collapsing infrastructure, Britain now pays vast sums but struggles to control outcomes. This is not a single scandal. It is a systemic breakdown.

Why Britain Turned a Chinese Embassy Into a National Security Crisis

The proposed Chinese embassy at Royal Mint Court has become a proxy battlefield for Britain’s unresolved China policy. Framed as a security threat despite the absence of clear intelligence objections, the project reveals how redacted plans, protest fears, and geopolitical alignment can harden into narrative certainty. This investigation traces how a planning application was transformed into a national security scare.

Tariffs as Secondary Sanctions

President Trump’s proposal to impose a 25 per cent tariff on countries “doing business with Iran” marks a sharp departure from established trade practice. This article examines whether such a measure can be grounded in US statutory authority, administered lawfully, and sustained under WTO and public international law.

Europe’s Uneasy Silence as the United States Tests the Limits of International Law

Europe insists it defends international law but has been cautious when an ally breaches it. From Venezuela where EU statements called for restraint and reiterated Maduro’s illegitimacy without legally condemning U.S. force to Greenland, where joint European statements reaffirm sovereignty, selective application risks eroding NATO credibility and Europe’s strategic standing.

When the Sky Became a Battleground: Iran, Starlink, and the Collapse of Protest Momentum

Western governments presented satellite internet as a democratic safeguard against repression. Iran treated it as hostile infrastructure and moved to deny it. As communications collapsed, protest momentum faded. The lesson is strategic rather than moral: satellite internet is now a contested battlespace.

Escalation Without Rules: Why Energy Strikes, Ship Seizures, and Broken Treaties Now Define the War

A week of strikes, outages, and ship seizures suggests the war is shifting from front lines to systems. Heat, water, power, and sea interdictions now shape escalation more than map lines do. With arms control treaties thinning and trust collapsing, the danger is not one dramatic decision but a chain of smaller precedents that shorten decision time and raise miscalculation risk.

Greenland Is a Test of Alliance Discipline, Not American Power

Greenland has become a proving ground for alliance discipline. The United States already has military access, yet pressure on Denmark signals a shift from treaty restraint to coercive signalling, with consequences for NATO trust and transatlantic stability.

When the Sky Went Online: How Starlink Undermined Iran’s Internet Blackout

As Iran imposed one of its most comprehensive internet shutdowns in years, a different kind of connection began to flicker above the country. Starlink terminals came online, authorities moved to interfere, and a deeper truth about the limits of censorship began to emerge.

Theft on the High Seas: How the US Is Taking Venezuelan Tankers Without War, Mandate, or Law

Commercial oil tankers linked to Venezuela are being boarded, detained, and diverted on the high seas without a declared war, UN authorisation, or lawful blockade. This article details what is happening, names the vessels involved, and sets out the law governing maritime jurisdiction. It concludes that unilateral sanctions do not justify interdiction and that the seizures amount to illegal takings under international law.

Nestlé’s infant formula recall brings back the oldest question a mother asks: who can I trust?

Nestlé has recalled specific batches of infant and follow on formula after tests indicated the possible presence of cereulide, a toxin linked to Bacillus cereus. For parents, the immediate job is checking tins, batch codes and guidance from regulators. Behind it sits a longer dispute about how breast milk substitutes were marketed, and why the WHO created a code to curb promotion.