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Ireland’s schizophrenic approach to Iran
On St Patrick’s day later this month, Taoiseach Micheal Martin will meet Donald Trump in the Oval Office. It could…
Is the US preparing for a long war against Iran?
Situation report The war in the Middle East shows no sign of slowing. Instead, there were heavy air strikes inside…
Could the Kurds rise up against Iran?
The hopes of the United States and Israel to bring about quick regime change in Tehran – whether through millions of…
Why the Ayatollahs might be harder to remove than Trump thinks
According to the old Farsi proverb, if you want a peacock, you must suffer the hardships of travelling to India.…
How the culture war came for the Italian opera house
The Italian communist philosopher Antonio Gramsci taught that for the revolution to succeed it should conquer the means of thought…
Spanish border guards won’t make Gibraltar less British
Almost a decade after Brexit, Gibraltar is entering a new era. As stipulated in a thousand-page treaty published on 26…
MrBeast needs an education in schooling
You may never have heard of Jimmy Donaldson, but if you have unsupervised children they almost certainly have. He’s a…
Trump isn’t the greatest threat to the special relationship
Britain’s refusal to fully back the United States over strikes on Iran has triggered an unusually public transatlantic row. It…
Will the Iran war propel Gavin Newsom to the presidency?
“I’m very angry about this war,” said Gavin Newsom, the California Governor, on stage yesterday. Newsom has a memoir, Young Man…
The good and bad news about Labour’s leaked social cohesion strategy
Some things in the government’s leaked social cohesion strategy will be deeply neuralgic to many. There is the creation of…
Revealed: Britain to get Islamophobia tsar
Britain is to get a new ‘anti-Muslim hostility tsar’ under plans to be outlined by the government on Monday, which…
Wokery is a Christian heresy
‘Progressive’ or ‘woke’ politics is undoubtedly religious. But not in a good way. In championing transgender, ethnic minority or postcolonial…
The BBC cannot tax Netflix viewers
The BBC has described itself as being set to enter ‘managed decline’. The government is currently reviewing the broadcaster’s charter,…
The decline and fall of Tottenham Hotspur
How the mighty have fallen. Tottenham Hotspur, the fifth richest club in England, the ninth richest in the world, current Europa League…
What Poilievre can (and can’t) teach the British Right
Over the last week, I have been stalking Pierre Poilievre. The leader of the Canadian Conservative Party has been in…
Israel wants to destroy Hezbollah once and for all
At around 2:30 a.m. on March 2, Israel bombed Beirut’s mostly Shia southern suburbs in response to a Hezbollah rocket…
Iran isn’t only a threat in the Middle East
It must be a comforting thought to those who oppose the military action against the Iranian regime that it is,…
Is it wise for Spain to goad Donald Trump?
Spain’s refusal to allow the United States to use its military bases at Morón de la Frontera (Seville) and Rota…
The Iran war is showing no sign of slowing
Israeli and American military operations against Iranian targets intensified over Thursday, while Iran and its proxy militias across the region…
Trump’s war doesn’t mean the rebirth of neoconservatism
Win or lose, Donald Trump has begun the last war the United States is ever likely to fight in the…
The real reason Greens are gaining ground
It was only a matter of time before an ultra-progressive, hard-left party with a fondness for voguish identity politics, enthusiasm…
Emmanuel Macron is having a good war
It is not just Donald Trump who believes Keir Starmer has failed to channel Winston Churchill. Now Cyprus have given…
Does Trump really have ‘whatever it takes’ to win in Iran?
With Operation Epic Fury in its sixth day, it is hard to tell how long the current United States military…
Arsenal’s success is a victory for Brexit football
I notice Arsenal have gone seven points clear at the top of the Premier League table and are thus very…
Who’s winning the missile war?
In the early hours of February 28, 2026, Operation Epic Fury commenced with large-scale American and Israeli air strikes against…
