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Britain must learn from the Netherlands’s mistakes on assisted dying
As a former member of a euthanasia review board in the Netherlands, I have closely followed the debate surrounding Kim…
How will the Chagos deal be funded?
To the Commons, where Prime Minister’s Questions has this afternoon taken place. Sir Keir Starmer was asked a ranged of…
The BBC’s Gaza farce takes another sinister turn
So the moral rot at the BBC appears to run even deeper than we thought. The storm over its Gaza…
Trump won’t find a minerals bonanza in Ukraine
US President Donald Trump has announced that Ukraine is ready to sign a deal that gives US investors a share…
Badenoch accuses Starmer of ‘patronising’ her
It is getting rather repetitive writing that Kemi Badenoch had an uncomfortable Prime Minister’s Questions, so how about this: today’s…
Keir Starmer is right to cut foreign aid
It was inevitable that the announced cut to Britain’s international aid budget would cause a stir. The curtailment earlier this…
How independent are Britain’s nukes?
Keir Starmer has sought to get into Donald Trump’s good books by boosting defence expenditure – and doing it in…
Chagos judge also supported slavery reparations
Well, well, well. It turns out that an international judge who ruled against Britain on the Chagos Islands has also,…
Trump reveals glamorous Gaza vision
To Donald Trump. The US president has shared a rather interesting video on his Truth Social platform, depicting an AI-generated…
What does Trump’s minerals deal mean for Ukraine?
Has Donald Trump’s heavy-handed negotiation style scored a win, or have the Ukrainians managed to wrench a victory of sorts…
Will Trump’s ‘golden visas’ threaten Rachel Reeves’s tax plans?
Fed up with Rachel Reeves’s tax rises, with the calls for wealth and mansion taxes, and the loss of non-dom…
Ukrainians are keeping calm and carrying on in defiance of Trump
In 2023, I had coffee with the celebrated Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov, on Yaroslaviv Val Street in the ancient heart…
How North Korea will use its $1.5 billion of stolen crypto
For a country that is notorious for its lack of connection to the outside world, North Korea is one of…
Starmer’s surprisingly ruthless foreign aid cut
Ten years ago the idea of a British prime minister announcing a cut in foreign aid to 0.3 per cent…
The Climate Change Committee is living in cloud cuckoo land
Energy bills may be going up and the economy may be flatlining, but not for long. Thankfully, the government’s Climate…
Europe can’t silence its working class forever
Last December the European Commission published its ‘priorities’ for the next five years. All the bases were covered, from defence…
My strange day with the Palestine Solidarity Campaign
The day after the bodies of Ariel and Kfir Bibas were returned to Israel, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) holds…
Who is to blame for the state of Britain’s military?
Old soldiers never die, in the words of the barrack ballad, but increasingly they do not fade away either. With…
What’s behind the vicious attacks on Elon Musk?
Why are Democrats mounting such a ferocious assault on Elon Musk? Why are mainstream media outlets so eager to go…
Casey DeSantis is clearly running for Florida governor
Palm Beach, Florida Casey DeSantis is running for Florida governor. That is simply a matter of accepted knowledge for the…
Scotland’s education stats pose a problem for the SNP
The SNP may be outperforming Scottish Labour in the polls, but the party of government still faces tough questions on…
How Macron beat Starmer to Trump
Emmanuel Macron’s lightning visit to the White House was a tour de force of French diplomatic energy, skill and bravado. Whether Macron…
Starmer’s defence spending hike isn’t enough
The prime minister has told the House of Commons that defence spending will rise to 2.5 per cent of GDP by…
Starmer timed his defence announcement to perfection
Politics is a matter of timing – and Keir Starmer perfected today. Barely two hours after Kemi Badenoch’s big foreign…
Trump is doing us a favour by targeting our dreadful tech laws
It will be an unacceptable intrusion on our sovereignty. And it will pave the way for American domination of the…
