What’s going on? No one is sure and many are too shocked to try and work it out. But the events of the past week look and sound awfully like the shattering of the 80-year-old Atlantic alliance. For ha

The German war on Allied convoys

RUSSIA’S ‘GREY ZONE’ ACTIVITY IN THE BALTIC, FROM GPS INTERFERENCE TO AGGRESSIVE SHADOWING, IS UNSETTLING SAILORS. WILL THIS BE THE NEW NORMAL, ASKS ELAINE BUNTING?

Becoming an Arctic explorer was nothing like I imagined. I don’t know about you, but as a child I always assumed that anyone that ventured this far north would need to be wrapped in padded layers of f

The poor citizens of Al-Jazira al-Khadra never knew what hit them. In 859, an unfamiliar fleet sailed into the bay separating this Muslim settlement – which later evolved into the city of Algeciras, n

We’d passed through the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, to give it its full title, many times en route to other destinations and always said that we should have another break in this beautiful country (we’