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Starmer’s Diplomatic Tightrope March 29, 2025

Not surprisingly, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is facing an extremely difficult political landscape in which he must manage a deeply complex balancing act. His backing of more EU defense expenditures demonstrates his commitment to European def...

Labour’s Budget Will Bankrupt Britain March 29, 2025

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has done the impossible by upsetting everybody with her emergency budget...

Britain Narrowly Escapes Recession – Again March 28, 2025

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has just confirmed that the economy ‘grew’ by 0.1 per cent in the last three months of 2024. Its final estimate for the last quarter of last year confirms that Britain’s economy continues to float just above r...

How Campus Activism on Israel-Palestine Warps Global Security Priorities March 24, 2025

Thanks to university-driven activism over the Israel-Palestine conflict, the war in Gaza has politically sidelined the West’s commitment to global security in other regions of the world.Israel-Palestine is one of the few conflicts that inspires activ...

Nigel Farage Has Won the Row With Rupert Lowe March 24, 2025

The Reform schism, which the party’s many establishment detractors hoped would prevent it securing a breakthrough at the local elections, is nearly played out. ...

Welcoming Europe’s Defense Industrial Renaissance March 22, 2025

Fearing a sustained threat from Russia and reduced military protection from the United States, several European nations led by Poland, Estonia, the United Kingdom, and Germany are boosting defense spending. The European Union is also making $163 bill...

Britain Chose Stagnation. There’s Another Way March 22, 2025

Last year, a story about a “bat tunnel” went viral in the UK. Nothing to do with Batman or Bruce Wayne, the bat tunnel was built as part of the High Speed 2 (HS2) train—Britain’s ambitious high-speed rail project between the North of England and Lond...

If You Want To Change a Country, You Need Courage March 20, 2025

Today, we honour Margaret Thatcher – not just as Britain’s first female Prime Minister, but as the leader who saved our country. She didn’t arrive in office to manage decline. She came to reverse it. ...

Europe’s Fighting Talk Is No Substitute for Hard Power March 20, 2025

Instead of unconvincingly pumping out their chests, European leaders should engage with the Trump administration in constructive diplomacy with Russia. ...

Kemi Is Right To Rip Up the Net Zero Target March 18, 2025

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has called for the UK to scrap its Net Zero target. In a speech earlier today, she branded the drive to decarbonise the economy in the next 25 years ‘impossible’ and warned that it poses a ‘threat to living standards...

The Danger of Starmer’s Conservatism March 18, 2025

The challenge of political leadership, Henry Kissinger observed, is that all the easy decisions have been taken by someone else, leaving only the most difficult and agonising choices for those at the very top. The most difficult issues of all, he wro...

The UK-U.S. Special Relationship Under Trump 2.0 March 15, 2025

How Reform Can Survive Its Civil War March 15, 2025

After a spectacular week of feuding, opinion polls appear to show support for Reform UK remains unscathed. Reform somehow still sits at level-pegging with Labour – perhaps even a point ahead – with the Tories several points further adrift. ...

Free Speech Wobbles in the U.K. March 13, 2025

Britain’s draconian speech laws come with jail time for housewives and pensioners who post the wrong opinions on social media ...

U.S. Picked the Wrong Side in Central Africa March 11, 2025

The United States and the United Kingdom responded to the outbreak of war in eastern Congo late last month by slapping sanctions on Rwanda‘s defense minister and the spokesman for Congo’s M23 insurgent group. The State Department’s move was counterpr...

What Britain Must Learn From Her Former Colonies March 10, 2025

Britain once ruled an empire where the sun never set, yet its lingering self-image as a leader rather than a learner has left it blind to the successes of nations it once governed or protected....

Dealmaker, Peacemaker, President March 09, 2025

“What the f— are we doing here?” asked President Trump in the summer of 2017.Nearly a year into his first term, Trump’s national security adviser had just proposed sending an additional 3,000 to 5,000 troops to Afghanistan, prompting his boss’s frust...

Can France and the UK Replace the U.S. Nuclear Umbrella? March 06, 2025

On February 20, 2025, shortly before Germany’s snap elections, Friedrich Merz, chairman of the conservative Christian Democratic Union and Germany’s next chancellor, made a prominent declaration about the future of European nuclear deterrence: “We ne...

Zelensky on Gilligan’s Island March 04, 2025

In the 1960’s television series Gilligan’s Island, Gilligan was always telling rivals they were both right. The joke was the impossibility of that outcome. By contrast, in the Trump-Zelenskyy showdown, both are right. And wrong.As often is true with ...

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Britain Is a Failed State February 20, 2025

The Britain I grew up in is gone. Things are getting worse, and nobody wants to avert course. People are banged up for posts on Facebook, but Keir Starmer refuses to root out complicity and corruption by those in authority over the horrific rape gang...

British Tories Should Watch Trump 2.0 Closely February 08, 2025

Conservatives on both sides of the Atlantic share the same hopes and the same challenges. ...

The Grooming-Gangs Scandal Is Far Worse Than You Think January 23, 2025

The details of what grooming gangs did to young British girls are literally unbelievable. They are so grotesque that it is truly hard to believe that one human could do such things to another, never mind to young girls....

2025 Will Be a Challenging Year in UK Politics January 23, 2025

Last year’s U.K. election saw a new period in British politics. The Labour Party under Keir Starmer achieved a resounding victory, securing 411 seats and a majority of 174 in the House of Commons. The triumph marked the party’s return to power after ...

The Pakistanis Who Spoke Out Against Grooming Gangs January 22, 2025

Ethnic-minority Britons are as furious about this scandal as everyone else....

Will Starmer Tell Us Everything About Southport? January 22, 2025

This morning Keir Starmer implied but did not categorically say that Islamist ideology was not the motivation of the dreadful Axel Rudakubana...