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2026-02-11 • Orbex collapses with £49M debt. Failed merger, lack of support highlight Europe’s launch struggles
Evening Analysis – The Gist Orbex’s collapse into administration yesterday—£49 million in debt despite £26 million in UK government loans—confirms that Europe’s small-launcher dream is wobbling. The Highlands-based start-up, once a flagship for “Global Britain”, failed to seal a rescue merger …
Read More2026-02-11 • Canada’s second-deadliest school attack highlights policy lag: gun bans without mental health and rural policing
Morning Intelligence – The Gist The slaughter of 10 people—eight at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School and two in a nearby home—rips through Canada’s self-image as a haven from U.S.-style gun carnage. With at least 27 injured, it is the nation’s second-deadliest school attack since Montréal 1989, …
Read More2026-02-10 • Europe faces urgent reform needs. Von der Leyen and Macron push for market changes, but consensus is
Evening Analysis – The Gist Europe’s self-diagnosis turned urgent today. Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen called for “deep single-market surgery” while France’s Emmanuel Macron demanded a “Made-in-Europe” preference ahead of Thursday’s leaders’ retreat. Both warn the bloc is losing ground…
Read More2026-02-10 • Japan’s landslide win enables a constitutional referendum. Markets rally, but Article 9’s revision raises
Morning Intelligence – The Gist Japan’s landslide has up-ended Asia’s strategic chessboard. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s Liberal Democratic Party now commands 352 lower-house seats—well above the two-thirds hurdle needed to trigger a constitutional referendum—while the Nikkei 225 leapt near…
Read More2026-02-09 • Japan’s PM Takaichi wins a super-majority, pushing for constitutional revision. Markets rally,
Evening Analysis – The Gist Japan’s voters have handed Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi a two-thirds super-majority (316 of 465 seats) in the Lower House, enough to push long-stalled constitutional revision onto the floor for the first time since 1947. Markets cheered: the Nikkei opened 5 % highe…
Read More2026-02-09 • Italy’s Winter Games faced protests over ICE officers, Israel’s presence, and a €14.7
Morning Intelligence – The Gist Italy’s opening weekend of the Milano-Cortina Winter Games was jolted by 30,000 protesters, railway sabotage on three trunk lines and police water-cannon in central Milan. The flash-point—ICE officers embedded with the U.S. team and Israel’s presence—taps a broa…
Read More2026-02-08 • U.S. wants Ukraine-Russia peace by June; talks likely in Miami. Deadlines align with
Evening Analysis – The Gist Washington has quietly placed a stopwatch on Europe’s bloodiest war: President Zelenskyy disclosed that the White House wants a Ukraine-Russia peace accord “by June,” with the next round of U.S.-brokered talks likely in Miami, even as Russian missiles killed civilia…
Read More2026-02-08 • Thailand’s snap election pits reformists against royalists and populists. Coalition challenges loom amid economic woes
Morning Intelligence – The Gist Thailand’s 53 million voters filed to the polls today in a snap election that pits a chastened reform movement (successor to the dissolved Move Forward Party) against a royalist-military machine and the Shinawatra-linked populists. No party is forecast to cross …
Read More2026-02-07 • The U.S.-India tariff deal involves reduced U.S. duties if India cuts Russian oil and buys
Evening Analysis – The Gist Washington and Delhi’s “interim” tariff pact is less détente than hard-nosed barter. Under the deal, U.S. duties on Indian goods drop to 18 % from 25 –50 %, but only if India cuts its Russian-oil lifeline and pledges to buy an eye-watering $500 bn of U.S. exports ov…
Read More2026-02-07 • Investors doubt AI’s short-term returns, despite tech giants’ huge investments, echoing past capital
Morning Intelligence – The Gist Wall Street’s 48-hour whiplash lays bare a deeper fault-line: investors no longer doubt AI’s eventual ubiquity, they doubt its near-term economics. A $900 bn vaporization of Big Tech market value earlier in the week, led by Microsoft’s 18 % slide, followed Amazo…
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