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Trump’s sovereignty game

At the United Nations, Trump noticed the noun rather than the adjective and laid out a foreign policy built on recovering the leve…

What Britain can learn from Giorgia Meloni's successes, failures and unfinished revolution

British politicians and commentators are right to study Meloni, provided the failures are studied as closely as the successes. The…

On the hook: how Starmer made the UK liable for €21bn of EU "loans" to Ukraine

‘The Brexit Years Are Over’: Starmer’s Ukraine loan scheme makes UK taxpayers backstop the obligations of Italy and Spain et al in…

How the EU reset fails Burnham's ‘Makerfield Test’

Burnham pledged a “Makerfield test at the heart of British politics,” his “touchstone” by which all his policy decisions and propo…

If devolution is the answer why has it not saved the UK’s world class oil and gas industry?

Burnham’s devo schtick is an irrelevant feel good pitch about bringing decision making “closer” – when competence and clear critic…

The end of a premiership built on ideology, identity and delusion

The tragedy of Keir Starmer is not that he failed. It is that he reached the end still unable to distinguish between his own preju…

Brexit at ten: Britain didn't fail – its political class did

The tragedy of Brexit is not that Britain left the EU. It is that successive governments lacked the nerve, imagination and discipl…

The end of the jury?

English liberty did not emerge from trust in efficient government. It emerged from distrust of power. The jury remains one of the…

Low income nations continue to reject the WHO’s pandemic agreement