Andy Burnham cannot solve Labour’s Gaza problem
Prime Ministers usually wait until they have been in office a little while before issuing apologies. Andy Burnham made one…
The Iran war is Trump’s Suez crisis
Clarissa Eden famously declared that ‘in the past few weeks I have really felt as if the Suez Canal was…
How the Saudis wriggled out of the Iran conflict
Some of the highest-paid sportsmen in history, the golfers of the LIV league, had bad news recently. Saudi Arabia said…
The incredible case of Dr. Gorka
One of P.G. Wodehouse’s best-known characters, after Jeeves and Wooster, is Roderick Spode: fascist leader and secret purveyor of fine…
Welcome to the Taco presidency
Among the many gifts the Watergate scandal gave us was Nixon’s White House press secretary declaring: ‘This is the operative…
Trump’s fantasy of victory
Among the many gifts the Watergate scandal gave us was Nixon’s White House press secretary declaring: “This is the operative…
Could Iranian drones bomb Britain?
One night in 1909, in Peterborough, a police constable named Kettle looked up and saw ‘a strange cigar-shaped craft passing over…
Inside the daring plan to reclaim the Chagos Islands
Peros Banhos on the Chagos archipelago looks like your basic tropical island paradise: turquoise waters and golden sands, waves lapping…
Arctic role: what does Trump really want from Greenland?
Donald Trump has probably not read Machiavelli, even the short one, The Prince. Machiavelli’s most famous advice was that it’s…
