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South Africa has no right to lecture Israel
As South Africa presented its case accusing Israel of genocide to the International Court of Justice, the presence of former…
Will Red Sea strikes disrupt the UK economy?
November is proving to have been a lucky month in Britain. Inflation slowed significantly: from 4.6 per cent on the…
Striking the Houthis won’t stop Iran
A month before the targeted killing of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) commander Qassem Soleimani in January 2020, few would have…
Why do I keep falling for Boris Johnson’s charm?
On Saturday, I was in a public library, waiting for an old guy to finish with the Times. But he seemed…
Britain and US launch airstrikes against Houthis
The US and the UK have launched airstrikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen whose continued attacks are disrupting trade in…
We don’t need targets to know the NHS is failing
How has the NHS missed most of its key targets for the past seven years? Some parts of the UK-wide…
Tories are wrong to imply that Starmer is racist
Is it really some kind of underhand racist smear for Labour to claim that Rishi Sunak ‘doesn’t get Britain’? This…
Even in the Arctic Circle, Navalny remains uncowed
Alexei Navalny had a brutal December. At the start of the month the Putin critic abruptly disappeared from his prison…
Will Chris Christie’s withdrawal help stop Trump?
It was former New Jersey governor Chris Christie who ended up getting smoked. His share of the Republican primary vote…
Will inflation return to normal this year?
When will inflation return to the target rate? According to its latest forecasts, the Bank of England isn’t expecting inflation…
Are the Tories cooling on their support for Israel?
The language in the government and parliament over Israel has changed a lot this week. Ministers are no longer mounting…
How much should we fear the return of the ‘bond vigilantes’?
BlackRock’s UK chief investment strategist, Vivek Paul, has warned this week that pre-election promises of large tax cuts or spending…
Iranians are blaming the regime for the Kerman terrorist attack
Two suicide bombs killed nearly 100 people and wounded many more in the Iranian province of Kerman on 3 January,…
What a secret far-right meeting reveals about the AFD
It sounds like a scene from a dystopian TV drama: in a country hotel west of Berlin, far-right politicians met…
Can ‘mini Macron’ rescue France’s president?
France’s Emmanuel Macron, the Fifth Republic’s youngest president, has just appointed its youngest prime minister, 34-year-old Gabriel Attal. The former socialist…
Rishi Sunak has nothing to lose anymore
Both leaders seemed pretty chipper at PMQs. With an election likely this year, Rishi Sunak has nothing to lose and…
Ecuador is trapped in the hell of constant violence
A new year and a new chapter has begun in Ecuador, one that those living there perhaps rather wish hadn’t.…
America’s support for Israel has strings attached
On his fourth visit to Israel this week since its war with Hamas started, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken…
The disgusting attempt to silence Joey Barton
I have a question. What’s more ‘dangerous’ and ‘disgusting’ – a footballer sounding off on social media or a government…
Starmer chooses not to probe Sunak on Post Office
Keir Starmer clearly judged that while the Post Office scandal is the hot topic today, voters will be thinking about…
Sunak to ‘swiftly’ exonerate Post Office scandal victims
Rishi Sunak used the start of Prime Minister’s Questions today to announce that the government will be introducing legislation to…
France is suffering from Brexit derangement syndrome
The French media has been busy marking the third anniversary of Britain’s official departure from the EU by gleefully reporting…
The EU is paying a high price for its Brexit pettiness
It has formidable negotiating skills, at least according to its cheerleaders. It has huge economic clout. And it can impose its…
Has Putin really revived Stalin’s infamous spy-catching unit?
Is Moscow reviving a notorious 1940s security agency? Or is the suggestion that the infamous SMERSH counterintelligence unit has been…
Ecuador’s gangs could trigger civil war
Ecuador’s most-wanted prisoner escaped from a maximum-security detention center in the port city of Guayaquil on Sunday. Chaos has reigned…
