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Mark WallaceThe Times |
The world had good reason to be thankful for the RAF this weekend – not for the first time. British jets took to the skies over Iraq and Syria in...
It wasn’t the author’s intention, but their poster caught my eye. Tied up on the railings, on my way to the station, the signs drew attention to a...
Wasn’t the Russian election exciting? The battle of ideas. The scrutiny. The rhetorical cut and thrust of those TV debates. My favourite aspect is...
“Headroom” has become a surefire winner in games of Budget Bingo – the word is always going to be uttered by the chancellor of the day. It...
The pressure is on for Jeremy Hunt. After a year of the Government searching high and low for ways to “reset” the terms of political trade, all...
Sometimes in politics, as in life, it may be necessary – or unavoidable – to offend somebody. It’s not ideal, of course, and most of us would...
Alexei Navalny was a brave man. Braver than you or I would likely ever be. Braver, more importantly, than you or I will ever have to try to be, if we...
It’s one of many rich ironies of Donald Trump that while he made his name synonymous with The Art of the Deal, much of his business career has...
As a Newcastle United fan and a journalist, my reaction to news of the club being bought by Saudi Arabia was somewhat conflicted. Like every other...
The understanding of risk among politicians and public policymakers is simultaneously vital to national success yet all-too-often absent. Placing...
Last week in this column I explored the ways in which the Conservative Party might fight back, or fall into infighting, if the Labour landslide...
“Tories facing 1997-style general election wipeout” was the headline accompanying the new YouGov mega-poll seeking to forecast the outcome of the...
The last thing most people want to hear of is a new tax to coincide with the new year. The latest controversy is the so-called “side hustle tax”...
It isn’t a great sign for Rishi Sunak that the editors of ConservativeHome have restored “Who should be the next leader of the Conservative...
2024 is set to be the greatest democratic year thus far in human history. By the chance combination of electoral cycles, more than two billion people...
Death is so often a useful starting point for history and archaeology. Not only because it marks the moment when someone joins the skeletal community,...
Whichever way you cut it, the days of David Cameron’s promise to limit net numbers to “tens of thousands” are far, far behind us. Meanwhile,...
If the Church of England was once “the Conservative Party at prayer”, The Telegraph could at one time have been described as the Conservative...
The person who did a job before you is not your responsibility – you aren’t to blame for their choices, nor can you change what happened on their...
“He was the future once.” David Cameron’s jibe, deployed in his first PMQs as leader of the opposition in 2005, had two effects: it signalled a...
The UK’s Counter-Terrorism Strategy – abbreviated as Contest – was launched 20 years ago, in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. At the...
Parliament and the nation have been told numerous times in recent years about the dangers of end-to-end encryption. It is a friend to terrorists. A...
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya – the leader of Belarus’s government in exile – became a famous dissident unexpectedly. In 2020, her husband, Sergei...
You will be unsurprised to learn that Wallace’s Laws of British Politics ™ run into the hundreds. Some are self-explanatory, such as: “Every...
Party conferences are an aspect of politics that are particularly hard to explain to political non-combatants. As a battle-scarred (and only slightly...
What do you know about what the Government is currently up to? It’s a genuine question, which illustrates a serious point about the current state of...
News of alleged Chinese spies in Westminster may be shocking but it should not be surprising. Beijing has good reason to attempt to target the UK both...