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Martin IvensChicago Tribune |
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...
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...
In arguments about the merits of restricting smoking, libertarians lose hands down. The “nanny state” has the weight of science, common sense,...
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...
The Israeli Defense Forces airstrike on the World Central Kitchen aid convoy in Gaza that killed seven of its workers, including three Britons, poses...
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...
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...
The UK government has issued a new “definition” of extremism. Islamists and far-right factions that incite violence and undermine democracy will...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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,...
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...
The Atlantic and the English Channel are narrower than you might think. The fashionable theory these last few years was that President Donald Trump...
A group of right-wing dissident Tory factions, dubbed “The Five Families” — a tribute to the mafia clans popularized in The Godfather —...
One famous definition of insanity, wrongly attributed to Einstein, is “doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” For 13...
The UK chancellor of the exchequer’s Autumn Statement on Wednesday — a budget by any other name — was a triumph of presentation. Inflation has...
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...
Don’t look to Suella Braverman, the populist UK Home Secretary responsible for law and order, for nuance. Braverman enjoys outraging liberal...
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...
Last week’s launch party for Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ new book about female economists looked like a rehearsal for a Labour election...
As an advertisement for a successful multi-faith, multi-ethnic society, the memorial service on Tuesday held at St. Margaret’s Westminster for Nigel...
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...
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