The Polish defence minister chose a quiet but significant stage for his warning: the 35th Karpacz Economic Forum, an annual gathering in the mountains of southwestern Poland where politicians, soldiers and experts come to talk about the future of Europe. Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz did not come with dramatic headlines about an imminent invasion. Instead, he offered something more unsettling: a picture of security threats that do not look like the past. In his view, the Russian threat to Europe will be increasingly defined by acts of sabotage, disinformation and airspace violations, not by a replay of the full-scale conventional aggression seen…

London has always been a city people love to argue about, but according to its mayor, much of that argument has stopped being honest. Sadiq Khan has accused politicians, online bots and foreign state actors of deliberately fuelling a false and damaging picture of the capital, using the tools of the “outrage economy” to turn London into a symbol of decline. His comments came in response to an independent study by the Policy Institute at King’s College London, titled London has fallen? Misperceptions of crime, race, religion and life in the UK capital, which found that public beliefs about the…