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Vincent James HooperThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
A new staging of Brecht’s Mother Courage in London is being read as a parable of capitalism. It is also, more quietly, a Jewish story, and a warning...
On Saturday the thirteenth of June the Grenadier Guards will troop their colour down a closed Mall, fourteen hundred soldiers and two hundred horses...
There is a familiar rhythm to how we now greet news about artificial intelligence. A frightening headline appears. Beneath it, someone reaches for the...
A new musical opened in London this month. Sinatra arrived at the Aldwych Theatre on 3 June, with its press night on 24 June, and audiences will hear...
A British scientific institution marked World Ocean Day this week with a quiet boast. The Marine Biological Association in Plymouth...
Debt-to-GDP is the wrong number. What decides whether a nation survives a shock is the shape of its borrowing, not its size — as a war that should...
Every year, the British constitution performs a magic trick. A monarch dons a crown worth more than most pension funds, rides through London in a...
When Elon Musk told the World Economic Forum that it would be cheaper to build data centres in space within three years, the audience divided...
Here is a statistic that ought to unsettle anyone who thinks of options as bets on a binary outcome: according to the Chicago Board Options Exchange,...
As Iran’s oil storage fills to capacity under the American naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, a term from petroleum engineering has suddenly...
For three decades, the global development model rested on an unspoken assumption: that the arteries of trade would remain open, that energy would flow...
Singapore scores 9.3 out of 10 on the Pew Research Center’s Religious Diversity Index. Yemen scores close to zero. Israel sits somewhere in between...
Cross the River Tamar by train into Cornwall and you ride across an argument that has been settled for 167 years. The Royal Albert Bridge at Saltash...
On 28 May 2026, the United Kingdom National Screening Committee delivered its long-awaited verdict on prostate cancer screening. After years of...
For thirty-six hours, a wounded American weapons systems officer lay in a mountain crevice in southern Iran. His F-15E Strike Eagle had been brought...
When the Pentagon released its first tranche of 162 declassified UAP files on 8 May under the PURSUE initiative — the Presidential Unsealing and...
Markets don’t fail because of shocks. They fail because shocks go uncorrected. That is the core finding of Rainmaker Information’s February 2026...
There is a golf course on Tristan da Cunha. It has nine holes, no clubhouse worth the name, and sits on a volcanic plateau lashed by South Atlantic...
Israel, Iran, and the curvature of strategic reality As John Wheeler distilled Einstein’s general relativity: spacetime tells matter how to move,...
The Negotiation Israel Isn’t In Since February 28, when US and Israeli forces launched Operation Epic Fury and killed Supreme Leader Khamenei, the...
An Israeli family of four now needs NIS 14,139 a month — roughly $4,480 — just to meet bare minimum needs, with NIS 3,797 going to food alone....
On April 7, Iron Dome turned fifteen. Over 10,000 combat intercepts. A success rate exceeding ninety per cent. And yet the most consequential fact...
On May 13, 2026, the British government used the King’s Speech to announce the Energy Independence Bill — legislation that will permanently ban...
This September, the Bayeux Tapestry returns to English soil for the first time in nearly a thousand years. Seven and a half million visitors are...
In quantitative finance, the fat tail is a warning — a statistical reminder that extreme events occur far more frequently than the elegant bell...
When a leaked Pentagon memo from Elbridge Colby floated the idea of reviewing US support for Britain’s claim to the Falkland Islands, most...
When the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Joel Mokyr as a co-recipient of the 2025 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, it added...
What the Decline of Pax Americana Means for Israel History does not repeat itself, Mark Twain allegedly observed, but it often rhymes. As we witness...
Israel’s economy contracted by 3.5 per cent in the second quarter of 2025 as the Iran conflict shuttered businesses and cratered exports. By early...
At a moment when much of the world debates whether infrastructure investment is affordable, Abu Dhabi is simply getting on with it. At the Abu Dhabi...
When Blackstone or KKR locks up capital for a decade, structures illiquid holdings around a perpetuity thesis, and appoints stewards answerable to...
Wars have always been won by those who understood the next battlefield before their adversaries arrived on it. The shift from trenches to tanks, from...
The UAE’s exit from OPEC on May 1 was not a tantrum. It was a strategic calculation years in the making. Abu Dhabi had invested $150 billion...
In 2009, the Anti-Defamation League found that 31 per cent of Europeans blamed Jews for the global financial crisis. They were blaming the wrong Jews...
This is no longer a forecast. Since February 28, when a joint US–Israeli operation against Iran began, Indian carriers alone have cancelled more...
Washington is trying to end two wars at once and failing at both. The Iran ceasefire is fraying. The Ukraine talks are frozen. The Trump...
A region that a decade ago ran largely on cash is building the financial architecture of the future at a pace that should command attention in Tel...
When a vessel named Panormitis slipped into Haifa Bay last week carrying wheat harvested from occupied Ukrainian farmland, it carried more than cargo....
Here is a question that nobody in Washington dares to ask: what if the apparent American stumble in the Iran war is not a stumble at all? What if the...
Israel has a pension problem hiding in plain sight. The country’s market-income poverty rate among the elderly is the lowest in the developed world...
Last week marked exactly forty years since Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant detonated at 1:23 a.m. on 26 April 1986, scattering...
When King Charles III rose to address a joint meeting of Congress on April 28, he delivered far more than a diplomatic pleasantry. Beneath the velvet...
When the Banque de France announced in late March that it had sold all 129 tonnes of gold held at the New York Federal Reserve, pocketing nearly €13...
Every political system is, fundamentally, a contract between governors and governed. The terms of that contract are not fixed by ideology or culture....
As Trump cancels his envoys’ flight to Islamabad and Iran insists no negotiations are planned with the Americans, a casual observer might conclude...
Forty-five years ago, on March 30, 1981, John Hinckley Jr. raised a .22-calibre revolver outside the Washington Hilton and, with a bullet that...
Strip away the theatre — including the surreal moment when Israel’s Foreign Ministry summoned Spain’s chargé d’affaires over an Andalusian...
As Iraq’s Coordination Framework scrambles to nominate a prime minister before its constitutional deadline on April 26, a familiar narrative has...
A viral social media post is making the rounds this week with a question its author calls simple: if the United States, Russia, China, France, the...
Robert Tombs, one of our finest historians of Franco-British relations, has surveyed the present moment and found it small. Writing in The Telegraph,...
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