Tom Stevenson

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Tom Stevenson

So, what has got investors so excited? The first point to make is that investment is a kind of zero-sum game. For money to flow into one market, it must flow out of another. And Europe's biggest advantage today is that it is not America. As I pointed out a couple of weeks back, there are good reasons to maintain an exposure to the world's biggest stock market - demographics, energy security, easier regulation and a huge domestic economy among them.

1 week ago | lrb.co.uk | Tom Stevenson

Israel’s aerial assault on Iran, launched on 13 June, was a straightforward act of aggression that extends the sequence of violence begun in Gaza and continued in Lebanon, Syria and beyond. Whether the attack was green-lit by the United States, or more likely ‘yellow-lit’, is still unclear. But it hardly matters, since the US quickly moved to support and abet the attack.

1 week ago | lrb.co.uk | Tom Stevenson

On​ 2 June the British government finally published its Strategic Defence Review on the state of the UK armed forces. When it was commissioned, in July 2024, Keir Starmer described it as ‘first of its kind’ and ‘root and branch’ – a clear indication that it would be nothing of the sort. This was the fourth defence review in the past five years, with two more (to do with reserve forces and defence industry matters) still in progress.

1 week ago | groene.nl | Tom Stevenson

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