January 17th 2026

e-ISSN : 0013-0613

Contents:

1. America’s gunboat capitalism will make the world poorer
2. What the collapse of Iran’s regime would mean
3. A private memo from central banks to governments
4. Without democracy, Donald Trump’s Venezuelan oil quest will fail
5. America has coped with worse things than Donald Trump
6. Geopolitics is warping multinationals’ commercial decisions
7. To power up growth, India must be rewired
8. The big ambitions of China’s private space industry
9. MAGA wants a moratorium on legal migration, too
10. Donald Trump’s Venezuela oil deal is already up and running
11. Bereft of legitimacy, the reeling regime in Iran massacres its own people
12. Europe has three options for defending Greenland
13. Six months after a big review, British defence is still in trouble
14. Falling wine sales reflect a lonelier and more atomised world