Saudi and Israel: A beautiful friendship in the making?
It is exactly 40 years since the historic visit of President Anwar Sadat to Jerusalem paved the way to the 1979 peace treaty between Egypt and Israel. The time is now ripe for a closer relationship, an open diplomatic one, between Saudi Arabia and Israel. This would be a breakthrough that could remake the Middle East, and help tame Iran
- 29 November 2017
The coming Arab Winter
While the extent of the fracking-induced geopolitical tremors are still to be felt, the shaking up of the Middle East's tyrannical oil policies is moving the regional tectonic plates as politics never could
- 1 May 2013
US set to become world's largest oil producer by 2020
Could the US' move towards energy independence and supremacy throw a spanner in the works for some of the world's most despotic regimes?
- 14 November 2012
Iran or no Iran, there will be oil
If, as looks increasingly likely, conflict over Iran’s nuclear ambitions is approaching, two things are clear: Shia Iran’s Sunni ‘friends’ will not stand with them and, Iran or no Iran, there will be oil
- 28 September 2012
The end of OPEC despotism
The shale gas revolution is fast-eroding the ability of the cartel run by the world’s leading despots to hold the West and Israel to ransom
- 29 June 2012
The Strait of Hormuz is international waters, not an international bargaining chip
Any lack of resolve at the Strait of Hormuz will send a message to every ambitious state at every international choke point in the world that all they have to do is squeeze and they will get what they want, writes Christopher Pincher MP
- 1 March 2012
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