Germany can’t avoid conscription for ever
Germany’s new chancellor Friedrich Merz seems serious about his pledge to make the Bundeswehr the ‘strongest conventional army in Europe’. Yet less…
Could the Winter Fuel Payment fiasco bring down Rachel Reeves?
When the Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced that she was withdrawing the Winter Fuel Payment from most pensioners on the same…
Meghan Markle has a strange definition of privacy
There are some sights that nobody should ever be forced to see, lest they be forced into a lifetime of…
Is the London Stock Exchange under threat?
When the fintech giant Wise floated its shares on the London Stock Exchange in 2021 it was widely seen as…
Crisis of faith for the Libertarians?
It was a difficult election for the Liberals, but even more so for the Libertarians. Previously the Liberal Democrats, there…
Is South Korea’s firebrand president up to the job?
Much akin to Britain on 4 July last year, South Korea is now veering leftwards. Seoul only had a protracted…
Europe is finally making more TNT
For Europe’s war effort, the time has come for boom or bust. Specifically, it needs more boom. On Monday, Sir Keir…
What James Cleverly gets wrong about net zero
The Conservatives were nearly wiped out at last July’s general election, and the party is currently trailing Nigel Farage’s Reform…
Is Israel a sacrificial lamb in negotiations for Middle Eastern investment?
On October 6, 1973, Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack on Israel, marking the beginning of the Yom Kippur…
Did Trump just allow Putin to bomb Ukraine?
Donald Trump has had another one of his ‘good conversations’ with Vladimir Putin, this time to commiserate over Ukraine’s drone…
Is the UK-EU defence pact a threat to Nato?
The Nato meeting of defence ministers in Brussels today will give its participants an opportunity to discuss the issues facing…
Jacinda Ardern’s triumph of style over substance
Jacinda Ardern’s tenure as New Zealand’s Prime Minister (2017–23) was lauded globally as a masterclass in empathetic leadership, her image…
Liberals back down on critical foreign student cuts
While the majority of this publication’s readers wish to see the restoration of the Liberal Party (or at the very…
Inside the parents versus social media conflict at the FTC
Washington, DC The battle between social-media companies and parents found itself center stage at the Federal Trade Commission, Wednesday. A…
BBC editor accuses Trump of dishonesty – wrecking broadcaster’s impartiality
The BBC’s response to recent White House criticism over its Gaza coverage highlights the Corporation’s vulnerability on the question of…
Why you should fear the post-DoGE right
Elon Musk’s departure from Washington was celebrated by many in the media. In the space of just a few years…
It didn’t take Starmer long to morph into Brezhnev
It has taken Sir Keir Starmer just under 11 months to enter his Brezhnev era. Portly, autocratic and reliant on…
Will the new ‘communist’ leader of South Korea abandon the US for China?
American divisions over politics look positively civil compared to the polarization that has gripped South Korea over the last few…
Cleverly splits from Kemi on climate
Tree-hugging isn’t just for the Greens, it seems – as former Tory leadership contender James Cleverly will insist this evening.…
Winter fuel payments will be reinstated this year, Reeves insists
Labour’s winter fuel payment cut has proven one of the most controversial policies brought in by the party since it…
Badenoch’s ‘chaos’ attack on Starmer will be less effective than she hopes
Fists flew at Prime Minister’s Questions. The party leaders sprang from their corners and bashed each other repeatedly in the…
Lord Hermer and the political prosecution of Lucy Connolly
Was the prosecution of Lucy Connolly in the public interest? That is the question now being asked of the embattled Attorney…
Kemi has a new favourite word: chaos
Whisper it, but there was some rather good lines amid the dross of today’s PMQs. ‘Mr Speaker, I asked the…
Starmer doesn’t have long to save his US trade deal
It has only been a few weeks since the UK agreed to a trade deal with the United States that…
Can Germany control its borders?
Two days. That’s how long Friedrich Merz’s signature border policy survived before walking into a perfectly laid ambush. While international…
