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Part III: VIGIL OF THE COMMONWEALTH PRINCES

By yielding Commonwealth markets to Beijing, the UK risks unnecessarily diminishing King Charles’ future influence across the African continent.

Ukraine war widens as Belarus commits to form a joint military force with Russia

The Ukraine War is on the brink of escalating into a conflict between three with Belarus poised to join.

Storm Clouds Gather Over Xi Jinping Ahead of China’s 20th National Congress

The movers and shakers from the biggest political party in the world – the 96 million-members who make up the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) – will gather in Beijing this Sunday, and for one man among the 2,296 delegates it…

North Korea: Nuclear loose cannon, or tool of Xi and Putin?

Are we facing nuclear Armageddon? What might precipitate the ultimate nightmare scenario? Joe Biden is worried. On October 6 the US President used the A-word, warning Vladimir Putin that any use of a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine risked cataclysmic…

Summer camps for indoctrination: Russians teach Ukrainian children how to fire guns

DISTURBING pictures have emerged of Ukrainian children in Russia-occupied Mariupol being trained in the use of firearms and mine sweepers The images were passed to National Security News by the Oleksandr Merezhko, the chair of the Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Committee…

Part I: Republicanism and “An ever changing future.”

As the recently departed Queen Elizabeth II ascended the throne on her Coronation Day on June 2nd 1953, she spoke memorably of the living strength of the Commonwealth, as well as of “societies old and new; of lands and races…

Putin warned his “mediocre” troops aren’t up to fighting in a nuclear battlefield

Vladimir Putin has been warned that his rag tag army of  exhausted conscripts and  demoralised mercenaries are in no fit state for him to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in the Ukraine. General David H. Petraeus, a former top U.S. commander in Iraq…

4,000 Brits told to leave Russia or end up in Putin’s army

Dual national Britons based in Russia face being called up to fight in Ukraine, western officials have warned An estimated 4,000 British people currently living in Russia have also been warned to leave the country as soon as possible. The…