How does Starmer plan to secure the Strait of Hormuz?
Despite usually being a fan of escaping domestic trouble with travel abroad, Keir Starmer would be forgiven for thinking his…
Even dirty Russian tricks might not save Viktor Orban
With a week to go until Hungary heads to the polls, Prime Minister Viktor Orban is fighting to save his…
Russia has its eyes on Svalbard
Svalbard The quiet hillside by Longyearbyen’s church gives visitors to the capital of Norway’s Svalbard archipelago an austere but beautiful…
Britain’s defence spending is lower than we thought
Whenever Keir Starmer and his ministers are pressed on the lack of a plan to raise Britain’s defence spending with…
Can Europe help fix Britain’s defence muddle?
Could an agreement for Britain to join Europe’s defence fund ‘Security Action for Europe’ (Safe) be back on the cards?…
Reeves should tax expats to fund Britain’s defence spending
Open the first page of any British passport and you will be met by a request on behalf of the…
‘J.D. Vance was right’: Is Europe finally waking up?
Munich, Germany The organisers of the Munich security conference weren’t subtle. A large statue of an elephant stood in one…
Starmer: Britain must be ready for war
Munich, Germany It’s no secret that Keir Starmer prefers foreign diplomacy to the domestic side of his job. So after…
Has Marco Rubio done enough to reassure Europe?
As Marco Rubio boarded his flight for Munich on Thursday night, he sought to reassure nervous Europeans that they weren’t…
The Democratic primary in Munich
While all eyes and ears at the Munich security conference will be on US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on…
Will Merz get his ‘transatlantic reset’ with America in Munich?
The Munich security conference started with a bang today. Breaking with tradition, German chancellor Friedrich Merz opened the conference with…
Who shot Russia’s intelligence chief in Moscow?
One of Russia’s top military generals, Vladimir Alekseev, is in a critical condition after being shot while leaving his Moscow…
Is the western alliance dead?
European politicians had little rest this weekend after Donald Trump’s announcement on Saturday that he would be imposing punitive tariffs…
Does Europe still have an ally in America?
European politicians had little rest this weekend after Donald Trump’s announcement on Saturday that he would be imposing punitive tariffs…
Will a military boost be enough to stop Trump grabbing Greenland?
When Donald Trump sets his sights on something, it’s hard to prevent him getting what he wants. That hasn’t, however,…
European countries are expanding their militaries. Why aren’t we?
Following America’s extraordinary raid on Venezuela last week, Donald Trump has pointed to Greenland, which belongs to the Kingdom of…
Dominic Cummings’s warning to broken Britain on migrant crime
Britain should prepare for more rape cases involving illegal migrants, Dominic Cummings has warned. Speaking on The Spectator’s Quite right! podcast, the…
Does Putin truly believe he’s the victim of his own war?
Ukraine – not Russia – is ‘refusing to end this conflict using peaceful means’, Vladimir Putin claimed this morning. The…
Keir Starmer’s Russia problem is here to stay
Keir Starmer will travel to Berlin this afternoon to join European leaders for a ‘mini-summit’ in support of Ukraine following…
Putin ‘morally responsible’ for Salisbury novichok poisoning
Vladimir Putin is ‘morally responsible’ for the death of Dawn Sturgess, a public inquiry today has concluded. The mother of…
We are no closer to peace in Ukraine
Steve Witkoff’s sixth visit of the year to Moscow seems to have ended again with very little to show for…
The Ukraine peace proposal raises more questions than it answers
Volodymyr Zelensky is meeting US officials today for the first time since the news of a US-Russia peace plan for…
Is Trump trying to strike a fresh deal on Ukraine?
With fresh wind in his sails after his success brokering a somewhat fragile peace in Gaza, Donald Trump has once…
Is Germany ready for military service?
It’s finally crunch time for Boris Pistorius’s plan to reintroduce military service in Germany. Following a delay of several months…
How Germany is preparing for war
Hamburg What would happen if Russia was planning an attack on Estonia, Lithuania or Latvia – and the threat was…
