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Vincent James HooperThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
Saudi Arabia’s 2034 FIFA World Cup will require fifteen stadiums across five cities. Between 2021 and 2023, the Kingdom invested over $6 billion in...
Anyone who has watched a trader blow up a desk will recognize the pattern: mounting losses, narrowing options, the slow slide from discipline into...
Keir Starmer choked up as he announced he would go. Within days the rooms around him had emptied. Ministers walked out of his cabinet. More than...
There is a resurrection the machines could now perform, and almost nobody has asked them to attempt it. Artificial intelligence has reached the point...
The web already regulates flashing light to protect one set of brains. It is time we thought about the rest — and Israel is quietly showing how. A...
British scientists have just detected something from space that should be read carefully in Jerusalem, though it concerns a sea more than two thousand...
Some of medicine’s most important answers arrive by accident. Israel is sitting on the next one. Some of the most consequential discoveries in...
In March 2026, buried in Saudi Aramco’s annual report, the world’s largest oil company quietly deferred its flagship downstream target. The 4...
There is a single line in the Emirates announcement of 17 June that does more work than the rest of the press release combined. The new Comprehensive...
In March 1944, the day after German troops occupied Budapest, a man walked to the railway station to buy tickets that might carry his family to...
Every Jewish child who has heard the story knows how it ends. A being is shaped from river clay and brought to life not by lightning but by language:...
There is a particular strangeness in being courted to embrace a product you have just been forbidden to touch. That was the position of the world’s...
From Saltash you can see Plymouth across the Tamar, and somewhere in that grey riverside sprawl of dockyard and terraces sits a building most of the...
A poll lands, a presenter leans in, and the chyron does the rest: HUGE NEW POLL PREDICTS FARAGE AS NEXT PM. The clip travels far further than the...
Every fashionable anxiety eventually finds its viral statistic, and artificial intelligence has now found water. The claim ricocheting around social...
The Letter in the Drawer. Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband has just closed a limited run at the Lyric Hammersmith, a bold new staging that ended this...
There was a particular pleasure in watching Joshua James stalk the lawn at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, breath hanging in the cold May air,...
On Saturday 6 June, just after Pentecost, the Royal Albert Hall filled with the sound of a worldwide church. Prom Praise, the annual concert mounted...
Britain’s most expensive policy choice may be the one it never voted for: the slow demolition of its skilled trades. As of late 2025, 957,000 young...
When I was a boy in Saltash, the Tamar at low tide revealed the grey-green slate the Cornish call killas — the foundation of a peninsula that for...
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...
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