Supermarkets with sabotaged refrigeration systems, a blood bank victim of a cyberattack, commercial airplanes threatened with bombs –and now also some media outlets–, banking and personal data of thousands of Moldovan citizens exposed, multibillion-dollar cryptocurrency thefts... Europe has recently been chained by a series of incidents of a very diverse nature that proclaim the same concern: to what extent can a society be destabilized without declaring war on it? Are we European citizens aware of our vulnerabilities, largely derived from the interconnection of our lives?

Massive cuts at Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) in the face of the telecommunications company's dire results, which operates in the British market and is 50% owned by the Spanish company Telefónica. A debt of 25.6 billion euros and a continuous loss of customers over the last year and a half threaten its business model in the United Kingdom. The presentation of the third-quarter results this Tuesday confirmed the crisis, and reports that appeared in the London press last week indicated that the company is preparing a workforce adjustment of 4,000 jobs, 25% of its staff.

A continuous trickle of false bomb threats against aircraft in mid-flight on different European routes. In the last 24 hours, eight have been recorded. Yesterday, Monday, the first incident occurred; the other seven have taken place this Tuesday. Four of the eight affected aircraft are from Ryanair; one from SAS; another from LOT and two from Wizz Air. Three of the planes –the one that was the subject of a threat on Monday and two of those affected today–, had departed from the United Kingdom; another was covering the route between Copenhagen and Warsaw; another had departed from Lisbon bound for Rome; two more had departed from Dublin and were flying towards Rome and Sofia respectively and, finally, another was covering the Bergamo-Sofia route. The inspections carried out on the planes have not found any explosives. At this time, the different European authorities cannot determine if it is a coordinated action, sabotage or a prank.

The daughter of immigrants from Pakistan is in charge of tightening the conditions for obtaining permanent residency in the United Kingdom. The British Home Secretary, Labour's Shabana Mahmood, announced this Tuesday a reform that represents a fundamental change in the migration model on the islands. However, she has offered a mixed bag, pressured by the more left-wing sectors of the party.

A mystery wrapped in an enigma, perhaps? In the last interview she gave, in 1974, for the Imperial War Museum sound archive regarding her memories as a volunteer nurse during the First World War, Agatha Christie replied that she would like to be remembered "as a good writer of detective and suspense novels". Most likely, that is how she is remembered. And it has already been half a century since her death (January 12, 1976).

A small mystery has been running through London for a month. Little by little it has spread like an oil slick. And in the 21st century, that means it has gone viral. In this case, through an Instagram account (Officiallondonsbatman) which currently has 126,000 followers, with one of its eight posts that has been viewed by at least 1.8 million people.

It would seem like a race to destroy humanity in which the winner is whoever raises the most money. At the same time that the company Anthropic, the creator of the chatbot Claude, asserts that artificial intelligence could pose a "catastrophic or existential" risk to humanity, and that it implies the possibility of destroying millions of jobs, this Monday its managers announced that they have filed the documentation to go public in the United States, on the Nasdaq index.

There is hope against Trumpism and the global far-right. An 80-year-old man, who will turn 81 this Tuesday, has proven it against all odds. The victory, this Sunday, in Brazil's presidential election for Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been received by global social democracy and also by liberal democrats as a red-hot iron to hold onto in the face of the ultra-conservative push radiating from the White House, the MAGA movement, and the social networks at its service.

The Cold War is a distant memory and a ghost is once again haunting Europe. At least, Western Europe. That of a hot war or, at the very least, a hybrid one, which manifests itself in many ways: sabotage, drones, cyberattacks, the use of immigration as a tool of destabilization... "We have entered a new era of deterrence," predicts security and defense expert Juraj Majcin. Eighty-one years after the defeat of Nazism, the outbreak of a widespread conflict, extending beyond what is now being fought in Ukraine following the invasion by Vladimir Putin's Russia, no longer seems an improbable scenario, and this will be, precisely, one of the topics of the new edition of Enfoquem, next Monday.

After the gilded exile in California, which has lasted almost six years, and the return to the United Kingdom with his wife, Meghan Markle, and the couple's two children this August, Prince Harry is once again sending signals for reconciliation with the Windsor family. In an interview with GQ magazine, the first he has granted since settling back in his country, the Duke of Sussex asserts that he wants to restore family ties. But he has warned that "some people" do not share this wish of his. Without mentioning him, he is referring to his brother, Crown Prince William, and the future Queen Consort, Kate Middleton.

The man accused of running over 65-year-old independent Australian MP Helen Haines twice with his SUV had been a friend of her family for two decades, according to the attacker's father. Brendan Nugent, 43, was arrested this Monday after ramming the parliamentarian in front of her electoral office in Wangaratta, northeast of Melbourne. Haines has lost a leg as a result of her injuries and doctors are now trying to save the other one.

The Canadian province of Alberta voted this Monday in favor of remaining part of Canada, according to the first projections made public by the public broadcaster CBC News. With just over a third of the votes counted, 76% of voters declared themselves in favor of not breaking ties with the federal government. The consultation held, however, was not directly about independence. Voters had to answer yes or no to the following question: “Should Alberta continue as a province of Canada, or should the government of Alberta begin the legal process required by the Constitution of Canada to carry out a binding provincial referendum on whether or not Alberta should separate from Canada?” For the most part, they did not even want to consider it.

Just when it seemed that the episode of the football World Cup in which, after the semifinal between Argentina and England, the players of the albiceleste displayed a banner with the inscription "Las Malvinas son argentinas" had been buried in the archives, London and Buenos Aires have returned to the fray over the archipelago. On this occasion, due to its energy resources.

The Scottish National Party (SNP) is determined to show British Prime Minister Andy Burnham that independence, or at least a second referendum, has enough support among the country's citizens. For this reason, the independence supporters have taken advantage of the opening this Thursday of their annual conference, which is taking place in Aberdeen until Saturday, to launch the "Choose Scotland" campaign, defined by the SNP as the most ambitious since the 2014 referendum.

Donald Trump always manages to outdo himself, and this time his lack of empathy has outraged the United Kingdom. The President of the United States has shared through his social network, Truth Social, the video of the deadly tiger attack on a young British man, William Chapman, 24, accompanied by the comment: "Never mess with nature!" The events took place on Saturday at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park, a zoo located near Doncaster, in the north of England.

The announcement that Donald Trump made on Sunday regarding an energy truce between Russia and Ukraine has no value on the ground. This was confirmed this Wednesday afternoon by the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, from Downing Street, after Russia once again punished Kyiv with a large-scale attack of ballistic missiles and drones during the early hours. The impacts in residential areas have caused at least eight deaths and around twenty injuries, and the projectiles have damaged several energy facilities, which has once again left parts of the capital in the dark and aggravated supply difficulties.

Russia, hybrid warfare, Iran, artificial intelligence. The head of MI5, the British domestic intelligence service, Ken McCallum, warned this Tuesday of the rise of increasingly growing threats against the United Kingdom, and against the West in general. And he did so by emphasizing Moscow and Tehran as the main agents responsible for destabilization operations.

With eyes set on November 20, when the European Union and the United Kingdom will hold a new summit in Brussels to seal a pact cooked up by former premier Keir Starmer, the current British Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, assured the Commons this Monday: "I do not intend to reopen the [Brexit] referendum." But, at the same time, in a verbal pirouette that practically implies a double negative – and therefore, an affirmation – he has left the door open to any possibility.

In the west of London it is common to pay more than 4,000 pounds a month –about 4,700 euros– for a three-bedroom apartment. With a lot of luck, sharing a four-bedroom apartment can allow you to lower the bill to just over 3,000 pounds –about 3,500 euros–. In Edinburgh, a five-bedroom apartment, also generally shared among students, twenty minutes' walk from the Royal Mile –the city's historic and tourist center–, does not go below 3,000 pounds: it is often a case of homes without double glazing, a serious shortcoming because winters in Scotland are long and harsh.

A few days ago, the weekly Charlie Hebdo claimed that the English "might" have found their Pelicot case, in reference to Gisèle Pelicot, the French woman who in 2024 publicly exposed that she was raped by about fifty men while she was unconscious, after being repeatedly drugged by her husband over the years. The satirical publication thus focused on a very similar drama that took place in Stockport, one of the commuter towns south of Manchester, which became partially known in November 2025. On October 19, a mega-trial begins against eleven men accused of raping a woman while she was drugged. In the Pelicot trial, the public prosecutor brought 51 rapists before the court, including the husband.