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Starmer’s summit is high stakes for Zelensky
There is only one story dominating the news this weekend following Volodymyr Zelensky’s disastrous meeting on Friday with the US…
Can South Korea fix its birth rate woes?
Month after month, it just kept plummeting. The South Korean birth rate last year earned the not-so-holy prize for being…
Why won’t supporters of assisted dying use the ‘s-word’?
Kim Leadbeater, the Labour MP in charge of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill currently going through its…
Why Henry Kelly was popular
For centuries the Irish in this country had been subject to mockery, derision and discrimination – even though there is…
Ireland is on a knife edge
Is Ireland a powder keg of racist, anti-immigrant sentiment, ready to explode at any moment? That was certainly the dominant…
Britain is reliving the 1970s
Is Britain going back to the 1970s? Even under the Conservatives in 2022, the Financial Times was warning we were…
Will the Gaza ceasefire collapse?
The end of February, which coincides with the start of Ramadan, was meant to mark the conclusion of the initial…
The troubling truth about ‘witchcraft’ in modern Britain
Witchcraft, and accusations of witchcraft, are returning to Britain. We might think of witchcraft as a thing of the past;…
Why even parts of Berlin are moving right
‘Berlin is more East than West’, said Thilo Sarrazin. A member of the centre-left SPD, in 2010 he published Germany…
What Europe can learn from the White House clash
The Trump-Zelensky summit is a geopolitical Rashomon. Some saw a lying, maniacal bully and his snarling sidekick berate a patriot…
Did Zelensky fail his nation?
Volodymyr Zelensky fought for Ukraine’s security guarantees so fiercely last night, it was as if he’d been invited to sign…
Can J.D. Vance be part of the peace talks?
Practically every aspect of that Oval Office meeting between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky was surreal. The blow up at…
The legacy of Covid will stay with children for life
Five years ago in March 2020, schools fell silent as Covid-19 swept across the world. At first, there was a…
Gentler stop and search tactics won’t keep Britain safe
What sort of mojo do you want your police officer to bring with them the next time you’re stopped and…
What Kierkegaard tells us about Bridget Jones
The scene is a well-appointed drawing room in Copenhagen in September 1840. A fresh-faced girl in her late teens is…
Was Starmer’s love-in with Trump really such a triumph?
Opponents of Keir Starmer would be well advised to concentrate on his many real weaknesses rather than inventing non-existent disasters…
Zelensky knew who he was dealing with. And he misstepped
Seldom in modern times has the fate of a whole nation been so dependent on a single meeting and on…
Zelensky made a fatal mistake in going toe-to-toe with Trump
What possessed the Ukrainian leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, to go toe-to-toe with Donald Trump in a verbal wresting match in the…
All along Trump’s aim has been to dispose of Zelensky
So much for the flurry of visits by European leaders such as French president Emmanuel Macron and British prime minister…
Trump on Mexican cartels: ‘You know what the only solution is’
Donald Trump’s second term has been revolutionary in many ways, particularly in his administration’s approach to foreign affairs. From the…
Zelensky’s White House visit turns sour
Keir Starmer will have been pleased on Thursday after his meetings with Donald Trump managed to avoid any major gaffe…
Dodds’s departure is embarrassing for David Lammy
The resignation of Anneliese Dodds, the International Development Minister, over cuts to the aid budget is a shock on many…
Will Dodds’s departure trouble No.10?
Keir Starmer has lost another minister. Anneliese Dodds is stepping down as International Development Minister following No. 10’s decision to…
Trump: To help Ukraine, Europe must help itself first
Fresh off the back of a summit with Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Washington, the President of the United States…
Trump: UK encryption laws are like what you get in China
Keir Starmer may have survived his meeting with Donald Trump yesterday – with the President saying he was ‘inclined’ to support…
