What does Trump’s minerals deal mean for Ukraine?
Has Donald Trump’s heavy-handed negotiation style scored a win, or have the Ukrainians managed to wrench a victory of sorts…
Will Trump’s ‘golden visas’ threaten Rachel Reeves’s tax plans?
Fed up with Rachel Reeves’s tax rises, with the calls for wealth and mansion taxes, and the loss of non-dom…
Ukrainians are keeping calm and carrying on in defiance of Trump
In 2023, I had coffee with the celebrated Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov, on Yaroslaviv Val Street in the ancient heart…
How North Korea will use its $1.5 billion of stolen crypto
For a country that is notorious for its lack of connection to the outside world, North Korea is one of…
Starmer’s surprisingly ruthless foreign aid cut
Ten years ago the idea of a British prime minister announcing a cut in foreign aid to 0.3 per cent…
The Climate Change Committee is living in cloud cuckoo land
Energy bills may be going up and the economy may be flatlining, but not for long. Thankfully, the government’s Climate…
Europe can’t silence its working class forever
Last December the European Commission published its ‘priorities’ for the next five years. All the bases were covered, from defence…
Trump’s Gold Card is genius
US President Donald Trump has found a way to force the Democrats to argue against migration at a time when the…
My strange day with the Palestine Solidarity Campaign
The day after the bodies of Ariel and Kfir Bibas were returned to Israel, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) holds…
Who is to blame for the state of Britain’s military?
Old soldiers never die, in the words of the barrack ballad, but increasingly they do not fade away either. With…
How ‘free’ is free speech?
Two of my summer reading books had me thinking afresh about free speech. The first one was The Happiest Man…
The Great Australian Empire of Nothing, according to some
As Dennis the peasant tells John Cleese, the King: ‘Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system…
Lie down with dogs, get fleas
The Free Democratic Party (FDP), the closest-to-my-views political party in Germany, has been wiped out and will not even be…
What’s behind the vicious attacks on Elon Musk?
Why are Democrats mounting such a ferocious assault on Elon Musk? Why are mainstream media outlets so eager to go…
Casey DeSantis is clearly running for Florida governor
Palm Beach, Florida Casey DeSantis is running for Florida governor. That is simply a matter of accepted knowledge for the…
Scotland’s education stats pose a problem for the SNP
The SNP may be outperforming Scottish Labour in the polls, but the party of government still faces tough questions on…
How Macron beat Starmer to Trump
Emmanuel Macron’s lightning visit to the White House was a tour de force of French diplomatic energy, skill and bravado. Whether Macron…
Starmer’s defence spending hike isn’t enough
The prime minister has told the House of Commons that defence spending will rise to 2.5 per cent of GDP by…
Starmer timed his defence announcement to perfection
Politics is a matter of timing – and Keir Starmer perfected today. Barely two hours after Kemi Badenoch’s big foreign…
Trump is doing us a favour by targeting our dreadful tech laws
It will be an unacceptable intrusion on our sovereignty. And it will pave the way for American domination of the…
Watch: Starmer apologises over defence statement leak
Uh oh. Sir Keir Starmer made a big statement in the Commons today on raising defence spending – but before…
Starmer to raise defence spending to 2.5%
To the Commons, where Sir Keir Starmer has just made a rather big announcement on the issue of defence. The…
Cinema doesn’t have to be stuck in a loop
If you’ve recently been to the cinema or turned on your streaming platform of choice, no doubt you’ll have been…
The energy price cap rise heaps more misery on Brits
Average gas and electricity bills will rise by £111 a year in April after the regulator Ofgem announced an increase…
Australia needs DOGE
Isn’t it amazing how the cost of living crisis seems to affect everybody apart from our bureaucrats… While the Australian…
