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Goodbye Warren Buffett
It was a mark of respect. After Warren Buffett, who can lay claim to the title of the greatest investor…
France is quietly tightening its citizenship rules
Bruno Retailleau, the hardline French Minister of the Interior, has issued a confidential circular to regional prefects with a simple…
Who is funding Trump’s billion-dollar crypto empire?
By one recent estimate, Trump’s foray into crypto has made his family almost $3 billion in six months and now…
Is nuclear war between India and Pakistan inevitable?
Yesterday evening Indian prime minister Narendra Modi authorised missile strikes on jihadi training camps located in Pakistan’s East Punjab and…
Tories slump to 17 per cent in poll
A new YouGov poll published this morning makes for grim reading for Kemi Badenoch’s team. It finds that, in the…
Pakistan and India are on the brink
During the early hours of Wednesday, India launched airstrikes targeting nine sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir, killing at least…
How long can Scotland’s nonsensical nuclear ban last?
Just outside Dunbar, a short drive from Edinburgh, sits Torness nuclear power station. In its 40 or so years of…
This Indian trade deal could be a disaster for Labour
It should have been a triumph. We might not have managed to get a trade with the United States over…
Are the Tories mad enough to bring back Boris Johnson?
The Conservative Party is not an imaginative organisation. The clue is in the name. In response to an electoral disaster…
Are India and Pakistan heading for war?
Last night, India launched missile attacks on ‘militant’ sites in Pakistan and in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir in retaliation for the terrorist…
Why are the Tories now against free trade?
Wasn’t a trade deal with India supposed to be one of the big gains from Brexit – an example of…
Should Canada join the Joint Expeditionary Force?
The narrow victory of Mark Carney’s Liberal party in last month’s federal elections in Canada was an extraordinary reversal of…
Catholics are praying for a speedy conclave
The Conclave, which meets in the Vatican today to elect a new pope, is likely to be brief. For the…
India and Pakistan could spiral out of control
India and Pakistan – two nuclear armed states – have a history of fighting wars. Tensions have been growing between…
Mark Carney rebuffs Trump’s marriage proposal
The White House press conference between President Trump and newly-elected Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney shows that every generation gets…
The real bravery behind the India trade deal
The UK and India have finally inked a trade deal. This is, in principle, a good thing. Free trade can…
The knives are out for the conclave front-runner Parolin
The 133 cardinal electors who will process into the Sistine Chapel tomorrow are feeling battered and confused by the prospect…
What was new in John Swinney’s Programme for Government?
The countdown is on, with only a year to go until Scottish voters cast their ballots in the 2026 Holyrood…
The India trade deal is a triumph for Keir Starmer
Britain and India have struck a landmark free trade deal, the biggest agreement of its kind since Brexit. It will…
Starmer can’t afford a winter fuel U-turn
Keir Starmer has ruled out a U-turn on the government’s decision to cut the winter fuel payment, with the Prime…
Merz’s chaotic election is a win for the AfD
Friedrich Merz has been elected German chancellor at the second time of trying – the first time someone in his…
Watch: Reform MP gets sworn in
It’s been a whirlwind few days for Sarah Pochin who has become Reform’s newest MP after winning the Runcorn and…
NFL in DC is the ultimate lefty YIMBY-NIMBY showdown
A pair of announcements by the National Football League in collaboration with Washington, DC has local citizens more excited than…
Why Britain must prepare for war with Russia
I’m old enough to remember the last years of the Cold War. There were definite signs of a thaw by…
Watch: Sturgeon refuses to apologise to women over gender ruling
Well, well, well. Nicola Sturgeon has finally broken her silence over the Supreme Court judgment that backed the biological definition…
