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The steel debate was an unseemly blame game
In the end, it was David Davis who said it best. Today’s emergency debate on how to save British Steel’s…
What is Xi Jinping planning?
Shanghai port is the busiest in the world. Activity there is closely monitored by financial analysts distrustful of official statistics…
Nationalising British Steel won’t fix a thing
There will be some stirring speeches about saving jobs. There will be lots of grand rhetoric about securing a great…
Trump tells Russia to ‘get moving’
With just under a week to go until the supposed Easter deadline, it appears that Donald Trump is no closer…
Greens grab victory in Lammy’s backyard
Westminster has a new tradition on Friday mornings: analysing council by-election results. These days, such contests rarely make for good…
Farage is leading Labour’s policy
For Reform’s supporters drawn from the right of the Conservative party, Nigel Farage’s call to nationalise British Steel never made…
First came the dire wolf – the wooly mammoth is next
With all the insane news this week surrounding President Trump’s tariff and trade drama, only one non-political story was significant…
Orkney could be Britain’s gateway to the Arctic
Orkney is a charming archipelago of some 70 islands and skerries – 20 of which are inhabited – ten miles…
Have we got worse at dealing with stress?
Barely a month seems to pass without a public exhortation to ‘raise awareness’ about the plight of some marginal section…
Merz’s coalition treaty is an empty, promise-free shell
It took just over six weeks for the new German coalition to form. That is very quick: in the past…
Parliament recalled to nationalise British Steel
MPs didn’t manage to enjoy even a week of recess before being ordered back to Westminster. The Speaker announced this…
Full list: Sunak’s resignation honours
And here it is. Former prime minister Rishi Sunak’s resignation honours have been published this afternoon with a number of…
China is hitting back with even more tariffs
China has retaliated against Donald Trump by raising duties on all American imports to 125 per cent from 84 per…
Scots charged over £150 to see Sturgeon live
You’d think if your political leadership had led to the fracturing of your party with key figures investigated as part…
Will the EU crumble under Trump’s tariffs?
In the escalating trade war between America and China, the European Union risks being stranded in no man’s land. Donald…
Europe must resist China’s advances
Since Trump’s inauguration in January, not a day has gone by when supporters of a liberal international order have not sunk…
Will Hamas’s human rights challenge succeed?
Yesterday, it was reported by the Daily Telegraph that British lawyers, acting on behalf of Hamas, were threatening to bring…
Is Britain finally going nuclear?
As late as 1965, Britain had more operational nuclear reactors than the rest of the world combined. Yet, Britain hasn’t…
The case for uniting the right
In just three weeks, voters in some 20 local council areas and in the Runcorn and Helsby parliamentary by-election go…
How Italian communists tried to indoctrinate King Charles
Dante’s Beach, Ravenna On the final day of their state visit to Italy the King and Queen were in Ravenna…
Rachel Reeves has managed to grow the economy
Just when everyone seems to be revising down expectations of growth, real world data starts pointing in the opposite direction.…
How Turin made Primo Levi
My first night in Turin, I thought of all the things I could be doing in this north Italian city,…
Donald Trump is taking on China in Africa
Donald Trump has opened a new front in his trade war with China, deploying a family confidant to Kinshasa to…
Trump is making showers great again
Sometimes it’s the little things. Get ready, world. America is back – with shiny, clean hair, glowing skin and a faint…
Why did the British defence chief visit China?
On Wednesday, the Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS), Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, gave a speech to students at the…
