The war between Israel and Iran marks the culmination of decades of shadow-boxing between Tehran and Tel Aviv. This is a war that has long worn the mask of deniability, played out in assassinations, cyber operations, and various forms of entanglements from Damascus to the Red Sea. Its rules were unwritten but widely understood: escalation...
So St Johnstone have toiled for large swathes of this season. That much isn’t really in question. But they’re not the first and they certainly won’t be the last side to stumble their way into trouble at the wrong end of the table. Since 1999, the team who were bottom of the table with three...
Was it a trap? One might think so. The Trump administration’s deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia has ignited a firestorm, seeming to give a boost–or at least an issue–for Donald Trump’s Democratic Party and Pravda Media adversaries. The deportation ignited a firestorm, has inspired high-stakes legal battles, and lured luminaries in the Democratic Party to...
A university student and Palestinian activist arrested by US immigration authorities was worried that an American citizenship interview was a trap. Mohsen Mahdawi, who has permanent US residency or “green card” status, was detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) when he turned up to the appointment on Monday. One day before his arrest...
“Parliament recalled in bid to save British Steel” reads the headline across the Guardian, ahead of a rare Saturday sitting in Westminster. The front page gives a flavour of some of the main stories dominating Saturday’s papers, from “economic turbulence” as Donald Trump’s tariffs continue to spark reaction, to the news that cricketer Jimmy Anderson...
