Why Trump is threatening the Falklands
There are still those who argue that President Trump’s aggressive, impulsive and inconsistent foreign policy is radical and disruptive, and…
War bonds won’t fix Britain’s creaking defence
The Chancellor Rachel Reeves is reported to be considering proposals to issue war bonds to fund a splurge in defence…
Treasury squabbles are harming Britain’s national security
The symphony of criticism aimed at the government for failing to live up to its promises of boosting Britain’s defences…
Starmer is being ‘corrosively complacent’ about defence
The old joke runs that you can tell when a politician is lying because his lips are moving. It is…
Can the Royal Navy really deter Vladimir Putin?
The Royal Navy has not had a good few weeks in reputational terms. It was nothing short of humiliating that…
Putin has called Starmer’s shadow fleet bluff
Theodore Roosevelt, the blur of energy who occupied the White House for the first years of the 20th century, famously…
The Iran deal has shown Britain’s irrelevance
With Donald Trump’s threat that ‘a whole civilization will die… never to be brought back again’ looming on Tuesday night,…
The fate of this US pilot could determine the Iran war
Around dawn on Friday, a McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle from the US Air Force’s 494th Fighter Squadron was shot…
The one hurdle to Trump taking America out of Nato
Donald Trump has never liked the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato). Disagreements have been managed before and problems deferred, but…
Civilian ships can’t do the Navy’s job in the Strait of Hormuz
There are those who will claim that Sir Keir Starmer has handled the UK’s response to America’s war with Iran…
Could Britain help unblock the Strait of Hormuz?
It has not required advanced training in detecting nuance or reading between the lines in recent days to understand that…
Should Nato help America defend the Strait of Hormuz?
As soon as Operation Epic Fury, America’s latest campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran, got underway on the last…
The glaring problem with the RAF’s new helicopters
It was good news, albeit good news of the your-house-hasn’t-burned-down variety. Last week, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced that…
Does Trump really have ‘whatever it takes’ to win in Iran?
With Operation Epic Fury in its sixth day, it is hard to tell how long the current United States military…
Iran has shown how naive Keir Starmer truly is
Being one of America’s closest allies – which Britain remains – is like having a very rich friend. You are…
Why Starmer must raise defence spending fast
Britain’s armed forces lack the mass, readiness and resilience needed to produce a credible deterrent in an era of intensifying…
Do Labour MPs even know what a leader looks like anymore?
Last week could have been worse for Sir Keir Starmer, but only because he remains Prime Minister – for the time being.…
Ireland had no right to name agent Stakeknife
Micheál Martin, now in his second stint as Ireland’s Taoiseach, is by our standards a political veteran, having led Fianna…
Parliament’s modernisers have been foiled
Parliament is pointless without debate. It is there in the definition of the word itself: the Old French parlement derives…
Why is Starmer so desperate to tap into Europe’s defence fund?
Keir Starmer has been seized by a dogged determination he does not always exhibit and has announced that he is…
Keir Starmer’s legal past is catching up with him
Sir Keir Starmer is the most distinguished barrister to occupy the premiership since H.H. Asquith more than a century ago.…
The nuclear flaw in Keir Starmer’s Chagos deal
The government’s treaty with Mauritius to hand over sovereignty of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), including the joint UK/US…
Even Europe knows Britain isn’t spending enough on defence
The United Kingdom’s allies in Europe are concerned that the British government is not allocating enough resources to defence and…
Why won’t the government buy the RAF new helicopters?
Sir Keir Starmer’s announcement last February that the government would increase defence spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP from…
Britain will struggle to put ‘boots on the ground’ in Ukraine
The current conflict in Ukraine has frequently been compared to the first world war. There is an echo of the…
