Issued on: 01/05/2026 - 19:36Modified: 04/05/2026 - 14:40

Gavin Lee welcomes Adrian Blomfield, senior foreign correspondent at The Telegraph. His reporting from the Strait of Hormuz offers a rare, intimate view beyond satellite imagery and policy abstraction. "One of the things you get a sense of when you're out on the water," he reflects, "is just how much more complicated the picture is." That complexity is not theoretical. It is kinetic, obscured by haze and shaped by "about 300 small speedboats… bouncing along the water" at high speeds, forming a dense and ambiguous maritime ecosystem where smugglers, civilians and military actors blur into a single, indistinguishable flow.

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