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Wednesday 08 July 2026 10:14 am | Updated: Wednesday 08 July 2026 10:15 am Nigel Farage asks the crudest...
Tuesday 07 July 2026 10:26 am | Updated: Tuesday 07 July 2026 10:42 am Remembering Norman Tebbit ...
Sir Keir Starmer attended his first Nato summit in Washington, DC four days after becoming Prime Minister in July 2024. Now, almost exactly two years...
Monday 06 July 2026 4:33 am | Updated: Friday 03 July 2026 5:48 pm ‘Number 10 North’ is no more than a...
When the incumbent prime minister – presumably Andy Burnham – lays a wreath at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday this year to honour ‘the...
It can be hard to believe, but it is only three weeks since John Healey resigned as defence secretary, saying that Keir Starmer had proven himself,...
Monday 29 June 2026 10:01 am | Updated: Monday 29 June 2026 10:05 am Burnham’s choice of Chancellor will define...
Monday 22 June 2026 10:33 am | Updated: Monday 22 June 2026 10:34 am Andy Burnham: being all things to all men...
Sir Keir Starmer came to office in July 2024 on a manifesto which played heavily on defence. The Labour party, it proclaimed, had an absolute...
Thursday was a bad day at the office for Sir Keir Starmer. The Prime Minister is already fighting fires on several fronts: the forthcoming Makerfield...
The Strategic Defence Review (SDR), published a year ago and meant to be the fundamental framework of the government’s defence policy, was not a...
Donald Trump never loses the ability to astonish. Many people will have breathed a sigh of relief last month when the United States Director of...
Today marks a year since the government published its Strategic Defence Review (SDR). From the outset, it was clear that the review was hampered by...
As Andy Burnham, who is still mayor of Greater Manchester in his spare time, campaigns to win the Makerfield by-election in fewer than four weeks, he...
Monday 25 May 2026 5:20 am | Updated: Friday 22 May 2026 4:34 pm Supermarket price caps? Rachel Reeves is truly...
In the last 20 or 25 years, there has been a much greater understanding that a country’s ‘national security’ encompasses much more than the...
Thursday 21 May 2026 5:47 am | Updated: Wednesday 20 May 2026 5:06 pm On This Day: Happy birthday Andrew Neil ...
Before Donald Trump returned to the White House last year, there were many commentators who sought to sanitise the President. Take him seriously but...
Before Donald Trump returned to the White House last year, there were many commentators who sought to sanitise the President. Take him seriously but...
There are still those who argue that President Trump’s aggressive, impulsive and inconsistent foreign policy is radical and disruptive, and because...
There are still those who argue that President Trump’s aggressive, impulsive and inconsistent foreign policy is radical and disruptive, and because...
The relentless drumbeat of events can distort our perspective of the passage of time. The Ministry of Defence is reported to be considering proposals...
The symphony of criticism aimed at the government for failing to live up to its promises of boosting Britain’s defences came to its crescendo this...
The old joke runs that you can tell when a politician is lying because his lips are moving. It is unfair – our elected leaders rarely indulge in...
Monday 13 April 2026 12:01 pm | Updated: Monday 13 April 2026 12:03 pm The defence industry can’t wait for the...
The Royal Navy has not had a good few weeks in reputational terms. It was nothing short of humiliating that it took three weeks to get the destroyer...
Theodore Roosevelt, the blur of energy who occupied the White House for the first years of the 20th century, famously advised statesmen: ‘Speak...
With Donald Trump’s threat that ‘a whole civilization will die… never to be brought back again’ looming on Tuesday night, a temporary two-week...
Tuesday 07 April 2026 5:55 am | Updated: Monday 06 April 2026 11:10 am On This Day in 1980: America severs...
Monday 06 April 2026 5:54 am | Updated: Friday 03 April 2026 10:14 am Keir Starmer believes undoing Brexit will...
Around dawn on Friday, a McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle from the US Air Force’s 494th Fighter Squadron was shot down over south-western Iran....
Donald Trump has never liked the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato). Disagreements have been managed before and problems deferred, but his...
There are those who will claim that Sir Keir Starmer has handled the UK’s response to America’s war with Iran skilfully and diplomatically. That...
It has not required advanced training in detecting nuance or reading between the lines in recent days to understand that Donald Trump is annoyed. A...
Tuesday 17 March 2026 4:40 pm | Updated: Tuesday 17 March 2026 4:42 pm Britain’s problem isn’t too few...
As soon as Operation Epic Fury, America’s latest campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran, got underway on the last day of February, political,...
As soon as Operation Epic Fury, America’s latest campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran, got underway on the last day of February, political,...
It was good news, albeit good news of the your-house-hasn’t-burned-down variety. Last week, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced that Leonardo UK...
Monday 09 March 2026 11:10 am Whether Trump is right or wrong, peace with Iran was never on the table ...
Monday 09 March 2026 5:11 am | Updated: Thursday 05 March 2026 2:32 pm On This Day: Adam Smith publishes The...
With Operation Epic Fury in its sixth day, it is hard to tell how long the current United States military campaign against Iran will last. It may not...
With Operation Epic Fury in its sixth day, it is hard to tell how long the current United States military campaign against Iran will last. It may not...
Being one of America’s closest allies – which Britain remains – is like having a very rich friend. You are invited to meetings and parties to...