July 18, 2025
is a writer on international affairs, globalisation, conflict and other issues. He is the founder and executive director of the Project for Study of the 21st Century; PS21, a non-national, non-partisan, non-ideological think tank. Paralysed by a war-zone car crash in 2006, he also blogs about his disability and other topics. He was previously a reporter for Reuters and continues to be paid by Thomson Reuters. Since 2016, he has been a member of the British Army Reserve and the UK Labour Party.
As several volatile global stand-offs over the past few months have shown, conflict between major nations can become normalised at speed, says Peter Apps
According to US officials, Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered his military to be ready to conduct operation by 2027
According to a recent report from US-funded Radio Free Europe, over 30,000 Ukrainian men have crossed into Romania and Moldova alone since the invasion started
Beijing’s stockpiling of oil is just one example of what appears a broad national effort to significantly increase the holdings of key raw materials
