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Rishi Sunak Limps on as the Best Leader the Tories Have

When Anthony Eden, Winston Churchill’s successor as prime minister, failed to stamp his authority on the country, his deputy R.A. Butler came to his...

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Europe and the UK Need to Be on a Full War Footing

The ink was barely dry on US President Joe Biden’s signature of a long delayed Congressional bill to aid Ukraine when artillery and air-defense...

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Warning: Banning Smoking Can Endanger Your Political Health

In arguments about the merits of restricting smoking, libertarians lose hands down. The “nanny state” has the weight of science, common sense,...

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Starmer’s Labour Must Define Itself Before Others Do

The opinion polls all suggest that the UK’s Tory government is toast, but there is no such unanimity about the Labour Party. Standing on the...

12.04.2024 10

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Rishi Sunak Faces a Dilemma on Continuing to Arm Israel

The Israeli Defense Forces airstrike on the World Central Kitchen aid convoy in Gaza that killed seven of its workers, including three Britons, poses...

06.04.2024 9

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Tory Party’s Scorched Earth Economy Will Be Labour’s Headache

UK Defense Secretary Grant Shapps made a special trip to the western Atlantic last month aboard the submarine HMS Vanguard, one of the vessels that...

30.03.2024 20

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Labour Party Channeling Thatcher Is a Risky Move

The UK Labour Party once came to bury its most formidable foe, Margaret Thatcher, not to praise her. No longer. In December, Keir Starmer saluted the...

23.03.2024 8

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Tory Mud-Wrestling With Extremists Won’t Salvage UK Election

The UK government has issued a new “definition” of extremism. Islamists and far-right factions that incite violence and undermine democracy will...

16.03.2024 10

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Labour Should Imitate Tory Party’s Magpie Behavior

When Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt stole the Labour Party’s signature policy of taxing the overseas income of foreign residents to pay for...

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Galloway Shows How US-Style Culture Wars Are Spreading to the UK

If truth is the first casualty of war, then the first casualty of culture war is civility. The sufferings of Israelis and Palestinians shown nightly...

02.03.2024 10

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Labour’s Keir Starmer Should Be Willing to `Win Ugly’

On Wednesday, a crisis threatened Keir Starmer’s steady progress toward No. 10, with as many as 100 Labour members of Parliament and several members...

24.02.2024 10

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Royal Drama Is the UK’s Respite From Excessive Politics

One in two men in most western countries past the age of 65 is diagnosed with a form of cancer at some point. So the news that King Charles III is...

10.02.2024 9

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Cameron Outshining Sunak Is a Bad Look for the Tories

David Cameron grabbed the limelight this week with a bold suggestion that the UK might recognize a Palestinian state in advance of a Middle East peace...

04.02.2024 10

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The Woman Best Placed to Replace Rishi Sunak

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak saw off a forlorn attempt at a party coup last week, mounted by a less-than-famous former cabinet minister, Simon Clarke,...

27.01.2024 10

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Europe Should Arm Against Barbarians at Its Gates

If you want peace, prepare for war, was the Roman maxim. Following that injunction the US maintains its place as first among superpower equals, even...

20.01.2024 30

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Britain’s Post-Office Scandal Echoes Earlier Debacles

A famous West End production of J.B Priestley’s morality play An Inspector Calls ends with the walls of a home falling down around a rich family,...

13.01.2024 10

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The NHS Death Spiral Requires More From Labour Than Promises

Nearly 53,000 more people died in the UK last year above the normal rate of mortal attrition — the highest figure recorded in a non-pandemic year...

06.01.2024 10

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The EU’s Enthusiasm for Populism May Infect Britain

The Atlantic and the English Channel are narrower than you might think. The fashionable theory these last few years was that President Donald Trump...

23.12.2023 10

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Right-Wing Rebel Tories Won't Let Sunak Off That Easily

A group of right-wing dissident Tory factions, dubbed “The Five Families” — a tribute to the mafia clans popularized in The Godfather —...

14.12.2023 5

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Rishi Sunak Bets the House on Rwanda — and May Lose

One famous definition of insanity, wrongly attributed to Einstein, is “doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” For 13...

08.12.2023 7

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UK's Hunt Gave With One Hand, Took With the Other

The UK chancellor of the exchequer’s Autumn Statement on Wednesday — a budget by any other name — was a triumph of presentation. Inflation has...

25.11.2023 20

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Rishi Sunak's Cameron Gamble Is an Act of Desperation

Rishi Sunak claimed to be the candidate of change at the Conservative Party’s annual conference a few weeks ago. But the man who aspired to tear up...

14.11.2023 10

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Suella Braverman Made a Grave Miscalculation This Week

Don’t look to Suella Braverman, the populist UK Home Secretary responsible for law and order, for nuance. Braverman enjoys outraging liberal...

11.11.2023 30

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UK's Covid Inquiry Needs to Look Forward, Not Back

The belated official inquiry into the UK government’s handling of the Covid-19 outbreak is shaping up as the finest entertainment in London. It was...

04.11.2023 20

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Keir Starmer’s March to No. 10 Risks Being Derailed by War in Gaza

Last week’s launch party for Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ new book about female economists looked like a rehearsal for a Labour election...

28.10.2023 10

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More Challenging Tests on Israel and Gaza Await the UK

As an advertisement for a successful multi-faith, multi-ethnic society, the memorial service on Tuesday held at St. Margaret’s Westminster for Nigel...

21.10.2023 10

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Starmer’s Prosaic Narrative Should Be Enough

All talk of a UK general election triumph was strictly off limits when I interviewed Labour’s shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy at a literary...

15.10.2023 8

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Starmer Starts Talking Tough on Migration

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16.09.2023 10

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Rishi Sunak’s Crumbling UK Schools Are a Gift to Keir Starmer

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09.09.2023 10

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