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How Pakistan became central to ending the Iran war
When the Iran war kicked off in late February, if you’d been asked to place a bet on which country…
Ireland shouldn’t send in the army against fuel protestors
When a government’s answer to protesting truckers is to send in the army, something has gone badly wrong. At present,…
Picasso’s Guernica has reopened old wounds in Spain
A row has erupted in Spain over what to do with Pablo Picasso’s 1937 Cubist masterpiece ‘Guernica’. Since 1992, this…
If only TACO were true
A useful rule, when trying to understand current affairs, is AAL: Acronyms Always Lie. A case in point would be…
Lebanon should be excluded from the Iran peace deal
The current phase of the disaster rolling through the Middle East hinges on whether a ceasefire in Lebanon should be…
What the hell is going on with Melania Trump?
Melania Trump’s bombshell statement yesterday on the Jeffrey Epstein affair needed subtitles. As she spoke it was all so odd.…
Should doctors be banned from striking?
Kemi Badenoch has said she will ban doctors from striking. Yesterday, asked if he would do the same, Health Secretary…
The problem with John Healey’s tough talk on Russia
What are the odds that Vladimir Putin is going to be cowed when British Defence Secretary John Healey warns him ‘we see…
More youth clubs won’t fix London’s crime woes
The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has pledged £30 million to fund a youth club in every London borough. This…
Ex-Tory MPs line up for Reform
Reform’s approach to these local elections seemed to be a variation on a wedding classic: ‘something old, something new, something…
It’s hard to believe that Starmer is getting tough on Russia
Less than a fortnight ago, Sir Keir Starmer sought to signal that the British government was getting tough on Putin…
Can the Royal Navy really deter Vladimir Putin?
The Royal Navy has not had a good few weeks in reputational terms. It was nothing short of humiliating that…
Zack Polanski’s Green party bubble won’t last forever
It was bound to happen sooner or later, but coming at the beginning of a local election campaign in which…
The shameful lies about Israel’s attack on Hezbollah
Imagine there was a virulently Francophobic militia on the doorstep of the French Republic. Imagine it had fired nearly a…
France’s migration hypocrisy
Four migrants drowned in the Channel yesterday when they were swept away by strong currents. The two men and two…
The US hasn’t threatened to bomb the Vatican
The first American pope does not like the President of the United States. One of the few things we knew…
The ONS should not work from home
Our invertebrate government has struck again. Given the chance to show a bit of backbone in the face of demands…
The Pentagon’s holy war with Rome
America is having its Golden Age, Iran is about to get blasted into the Stone Age… and Elbridge Colby wants…
What Trump gets wrong about NATO
The idea that the United States has been swindled by its NATO allies is not new. Robert Gates, in his…
Why are the Greens using the local elections to attack Israel?
In putting an attack on Israel front and centre of his party’s local election launch, you would think Zack Polanski…
Who is lying about the Iran ceasefire?
Somebody is lying about the ceasefire. Iran has insisted that the agreement includes Israel stopping its military action in Lebanon.…
Putin has called Starmer’s shadow fleet bluff
Theodore Roosevelt, the blur of energy who occupied the White House for the first years of the 20th century, famously…
Hungary has become a tired gerontocracy
Hungary in 2026 is what most developed countries were probably on their way to becoming in the 1980s and early…
Keir Starmer’s Gulf trip is a masterclass in delusion
There’s an entire glorious genre of photos that we might tentatively entitle: ‘Keir Starmer standing in front of people who…
The US and Israel have beaten Iran
Anyone who has been following the developments in the Middle East through the eyes of the BBC and Sky News…
