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1 week ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Forgive me for sounding jaundiced, but decades ago I covered the Republican crusade under Speaker Newt Gingrich to restore states rights and check the usurpations of federal power. Gingrich and his party are now egging on the federal military occupation of states that stand in Trump's way. James Carville, veteran Democratic strategist and Clinton-fixer, says the Democrats should bide their time and "play possum", betting that Trump will self-destruct under the contradictions of his own policies.
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1 week ago | 
smh.com.au | Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard June 18, 2025 — 1.13pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Oil, currency and equity markets are treating the all-out war between Israel and the Iranian regime almost as if it were a routine and contained Middle East spat, likely to blow over as so often before. It is nothing of the sort.
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1 week ago | 
watoday.com.au | Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
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1 week ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
S&P Global Market Intelligence said the Iranian regime may lash out at energy infrastructure across the region as a final, desperate move once it depletes its missile stock and loses its main tool of leverage. It might try to mobilise the Iraqi Shia militias, such as the Kataib Hezbollah and the Popular Mobilization Forces, to paralyse the Basra oil terminals - threatening up to 3.4m barrels per day of exports. Iran does not want a parallel conflict with Sunni Arab states.
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1 week ago | 
aol.co.uk | Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Oil, currency and equity markets are treating all-out war between Israel and the Iranian regime almost as if it were a routine and contained Middle East spat, likely to blow over as so often before. It is nothing of the sort. Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu aims to overthrow Iran’s clerical-military regime and talks openly of liquidating the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. This is a fight to the death.
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2 weeks ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Great British Nuclear has ordered three of the 470 MW reactors; a good signal, yes, but too few to turbo-charge development and pull forward delivery. "It is not enough to stand up commercial operations," said the company's Dan Gould. Rolls-Royce is in SMR talks with the Czech Republic, Sweden, Poland and a host of other countries, as well as with a private energy group in the Netherlands. Nothing is yet firm. Mr Miliband would have done better with our money to order 10 or 12 Rolls-Royce reactors.
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2 weeks ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Britain is hardly a shining example either but at least it has a coherent government able to impose a degree of discipline. The French political system is split three ways and is in a state of near complete breakdown. Another lame-duck prime minister - the fourth in 18 months, this one a septuagenarian biographer of King Henri IV called François Bayrou - has no functioning majority in parliament and no functioning cabinet either. He herds squabbling cats.
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1 month ago | 
capitalmadrid.com | Barney Jopson |Ambrose Evans-Pritchard |Isabella Noble |Tarek Salame
Titulares PrincipalesLas muertes por suicidio de hombres triplican las de mujeres: 'Ser varón es en sí mismo un factor de riesgo', por Eleonora GiovioEn España, según los últimos datos disponibles del Instituto Nacional de Estadística, murieron por suicidio 4.116 personas en 2023. De ellos, el 73,9% fueron hombres (3.044). Los expertos achacan esta tendencia, en parte, a las expectativas sobre la masculinidad: ser fuertes, resolutivos y sustentar a la familia.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The stench of a cover-up hangs over Spain’s giant blackout, the worst electricity failure in any developed country in modern times. Faith in the current investigation has reached rock-bottom. The socialist government of Pedro Sánchez is trying to buy time with explanations that either make no technical sense or veer into absurdity. Red Eléctrica, which runs the grid, is accused of stonewalling everybody.
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1 month ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Claims have been aired - and denied - that there was a lack of inertia in the grid just before the blackout, causing the frequency to fall below 50 hertz. Gas and nuclear plants retain kinetic energy from spinning rotors for a few seconds after losing power, which provides a critical buffer. Wind and solar do not. But this has been known for a long time. Modern systems replicate the inertia through other means, such as "grid-forming" inverters at wind and solar plants.
