President Erdoğan will celebrate his deliverance from last night’s coup as a triumph of “democracy”. We need not necessarily join the celebration.

From Friday evening into early Saturday morning, WRM and staff shared their thoughts and provided context as news was breaking.

Lenin once observed that in some decades nothing happens, and in some weeks, decades happen. That is the position in which Brexit Britain finds itself today.

It isn’t just the dithering of the United States that emboldens Beijing—Europe’s lack of resolve matters too.

Nothing is inevitable and nothing is impossible when it comes to the Arab-Israeli situation, but certain things are very, very unlikely.

The President’s threat to put the UK “at the back of the queue” for future trade deals rings hollow. Are red lines red anymore?

So far, every time a clear choice has come between suffering the pain of reform and flinching, Beijing has flinched.

Can Theresa May do what David Cameron couldn’t, and kickstart UK shale production?

The problems that forced Puerto Rico belly-up are not confined to the island.

Foreigners are clearly no longer exempt from the depredations of the Russian state.