Category: Commentary
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Return to Sender: September 2026
Month by month now we are seeing a rewriting of the world order that has held sway for many decades, as old certainties give way and new alliances are formed. It’s both fascinating to watch and terrifying at the same time.
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Letter from Lincoln…September 2026
I usually aim to concentrate on geoeconomics in these mid-month reports but inevitably the political situation always overshadows this, even more so this month.
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Return to Sender: August 2026
Right at the start of August, three countries in the Middle East region – Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey – came together to sign the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement. Similar to NATO’s article 5, this states that any attack on one will be considered as an attack on all three and be met with a…
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Letter from Lincoln…August 2026
The dominant theme of the summer is continuing into August – runaway wars and out of control wildfires – but attention is now starting to turn to the cost of all this.
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Return to Sender: July 2026
The recent news within the UK has been dominated by the Odyssey – not the latest cinematic retelling of Homer’s original poem – but Andy Burnham’s far less interesting journey from Westminster to Manchester and the long return back to Westminster to become Britain’s fifth prime minister in four years. He has promised a radical…
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Letter from Lincoln…July 2026
Entirely predictably – and not just by me in my last column – the ceasefire between the US and Iran has broken down, with both sides initiating strikes in the Middle East. This has left more ships stranded on the wrong side of the Strait of Hormuz while the oil prices head north again.
