"You have to put a lot of effort into not going mad." - @rolandoliphant.bsky.social relaying a message from his friend in Kyiv

Explosion in Kharkiv ‼️ our city is under russian drone attack right now ‼️

D Blair and I spent the week trying to understand how Europe could defend itself without America. Here's our answer: www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

New Battlelines on the Nato civil war, King Trump versus Carney Cromwell(?), James Rothwell on sunsets in Greenland, David Blair on how he saved the West www.youtube.com/watch?v=seHW...

Rest easy old friend. Adam Dobby, former SAS man who helped journalists cover the wars in Syria and Ukraine www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2...

I enjoyed writing this for Foreign Affairs on why the US Military’s most serious Chinese capability problems in the Indo-Pacific cannot be solved with “cheap massed drones”: www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Former HMA Washington Kim Darroch on Trump's new national security strategy: a rejection of 70 years of foreign policy, but which should not surprise anyone. youtu.be/zXm8smIIrQw?...

"It's not a tank!"

Very tank nerdy episode of Battlelines: if Britain can't fix Ajax, can it still fight. With the Tel's Dom Nicholls and Ben Barry of IISS. Yes I know I know when is a tank not a tank etc share.google/xrGNBbcExnNE...

I've met estate agents like this. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Um..

❗️Russian drone struck a residential building in Zaporizhzhia.

"Europe’s problem is not that it lacks options. It is that it refuses to use them". Jade McGlynn skewers both the Dmitriev/Witkoff plan for Ukraine's destruction, & Europe's refusal to act decisively enough to prevent disaster. open.substack.com/pub/smalldee...

Xi Jinping is purging the CCP leadership. So we spoke to @josephtorigian.bsky.social about how the Xi family's own purge-trauma informs how he runs China - and covets Taiwan. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLxa...

For the @telegraph.co.uk podcast Battle Lines, I talked to @rolandoliphant.bsky.social about my book "The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping" podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...

U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is in Abu Dhabi to meet with Russian officials, who will presumably tell him that Europe's revised 28-point plan is a nonstarter and it's the original Dmitriev–Witkoff document to get things moving or nothing. www.cbsnews.com/news/army-se...

The Witkoff-Dmitriev peace plan was lunacy. But the European/Ukrainian counter offer is very sensible: here's why. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11...

Russia struck an apartment building in Ternopil with an X-101 missile, killing 16 people, including a child. More than 60 people were injured, among them 14 children. Rescuers are still searching through the debris.

The death toll from the russian missile attack on Ternopil has risen to 19. More than 65 people were injured, including 16 children.

Donald Trump's admin is full of War on Terror vets - and this week he welcomed one from the other side. Friday's battlelines looks at Ahmed al Sharaa: Why the West is betting on a millenial ex-Al Qaeda commander to fix Syria. youtube.com/watch?v=xf0x...

Here's our piece on Iran's drought. Really fascinating - and a lesson for everyone about ignoring the creeping crisis of climate change. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11...

Great piece for Russia watchers, from Roman Badanin www.proekt.media/en/guide-en/...

I've been lucky enough to report from Iran a couple of times over the years. Each time I was there, water was an issue on people's minds, including officials I spoke to. But if everyone knew there was a problem, how did Tehran end up on the brink of running dry? youtu.be/zlP2If9uzV4?...

Fridays battlelines on El Fasher youtu.be/uPWsrH5XdDg?...

The Telegraph cannot keep its credibility if it is not transparently independent www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11...

Verification asks: can we reliably establish what is true? Deliberation asks: can we debate and decide fairly together? Accountability asks: can we hold power to account? If one or more of those breaks down, democracy doesn’t just wobble, it hollows out.

Reupping this article from February — because nothing has changed. Putin is still being allowed to fight at the table for what he can’t win on the ground. Trump is still pursuing normalisation at the expense of Ukraine. Europe is still prostrate. www.newstatesman.com/world/europe...

This old chestnut gets wheeled out every decade or so. Might as well build a tunnel on the moon. Would be as useful/feasible/viable

Tomorrow evening: Giants of journalism @andreisoldatov.bsky.social, Irina Borogan and Catherine Belton on what Putin did to Russia. No one can tell the story better, so come along: www.theconduit.com/upcoming-eve...

🚨Almost nine in 10 clinics in war-ravaged DRC run low on medicines @icrc.org warns that health centres in the eastern region face a dire situation amid a mass exodus of medical staff @benfarmerdt.bsky.social has the latest www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Taking questions on this topic in the comment thread from 1500. Ask away: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10...

How China Spies: or why Beijing's way of espionage is a bit different to the Western (and even Russian) way www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10...

In 1916 it was the tank. In 2025, it is lasers and stuff. How the war in Ukraine is sending us hurtling into the grim darkness for fully automated robot war. Taking questions this afternoon: post in the comments and lets chat about techno distopia www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10...

Taking questions on this piece now. Post in the comments on the homepage and I'll try to reply www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Russia dropped a bomb on a Ukrainian village yesterday that murdered at least 23 elderly people.

Russia hit a village in Donetsk Oblast with an aerial bomb as locals were receiving their pensions, killing 20 people and wounding 20 others.

Just finished this film about Kharkiv. Made me feel ashamed at how numbed I have come to the news from that wonderful city. Watch: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

In other words, the coalition of the willing is unwilling to help until Ukraine doesn't need its help. Surely at some point someone has to realise that this approach just incentivises Putin to keep the war going?

David Blair on why talk of leaving the Refugee Convention - "a painstaking and entirely reasonable attempt to strike a balance between humanitarian compassion and national sovereignty" - is half witted. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09...

North Korea analysts are a very thoughtful bunch, which made reporting this a fascinating and enjoyable job. On the Kim dynasty's succession plans: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09...

The clearing of the rubble in a Kyiv high-rise house bombed by russia — which claimed 25 lives — has just ended, and already a new swarm of russian drones fills our skies, with Tu jets preparing for takeoff and the launch of cruise missiles. This is a never-ending 9/11.

They asked me to write about Donbas so I wrote about the rivers. Again. In maps: Why the entire peace deal hangs on this small strip of Ukraine www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08...

Major development in Ukraine, which for more than three years has seen all sides largely put politics aside to focus on the war against Russia…

Really privileged to have the great Irina Borogan and @andreisoldatov.bsky.social on Ukraine the latest today, talking about Our Dear Friends in Moscow www.youtube.com/watch?v=brWk...

Was in the chair for Ukraine: the Latest on Friday. Highly recommend Jade McGlynn’s insights on understanding Russia and the mad way so many people project their own obsessions on it youtu.be/E2FQ7h81ERc?...

On Patriot missiles and zooming around the sky in het fighters. Unfortunately missed the bit when he sang the praises of the Mosquito. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlfd...

Very pleased to see the word "battleships" is still annoying people. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07...

Found this conversation utterly fascinating. The Dalai Lama, China, and the politics of reincarnation. It's another experiment with video. Hope everyone enjoys nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8egFEk2uVr4

A 7/7 survivor and her rescuer speak to Tel photographer Heathcliffe O'Malley about 20 years of recovery... www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07...

Rare filmed edition of Battle Lines about Jack Aubrey and other things nautical and warry. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSgY...