What Lord Frost gets wrong about the Tories’ future
It hardly feels like a serious discussion of the Conservative party’s future until Lord Frost has indicated where the leadership…
How many peacekeepers can Europe send to Ukraine?
We may look back to find Sir Keir Starmer partly defined by the phrase ‘coalition of the willing’. It is…
The EU wants to shaft British defence firms
Sir Keir Starmer’s attitude to Europe and the EU is hard to fathom. As a left-leaning human rights lawyer who…
Who are the contenders to be the next ‘C’?
Somewhere in an office on the south bank of the Thames, a man is writing in green ink and signing…
The problem with Starmer’s peacekeeping plan for Ukraine
Sir Keir Starmer has been tireless in his diplomatic efforts to construct a ‘coalition of the willing’ and send a…
What hope does John Healey have of influencing Trump?
In the eight months since he was appointed Secretary of State for Defence, John Healey has undertaken so many foreign…
Who is to blame for the state of Britain’s military?
Old soldiers never die, in the words of the barrack ballad, but increasingly they do not fade away either. With…
Starmer’s defence spending hike isn’t enough
The prime minister has told the House of Commons that defence spending will rise to 2.5 per cent of GDP by…
Can the British army stretch to peace-keeping in Ukraine?
It has been a traumatic week for Europe’s political and military leaders. Last Wednesday, without warning, US President Donald Trump…
Is Starmer about to finally increase defence spending?
There is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth. Only three weeks ago,…
Starmer is in denial about the high cost of defence
It is hard to think of a recent prime minister whose first months in office have seen defence in the…
Why didn’t Starmer go to Munich?
The Munich Security Conference, which this week gathers in the Bavarian capital for its 61st edition, is a big deal…
Starmer may come to regret his EU defence pact
Sir Keir Starmer has been on another overseas visit. On his 18th trip in seven months as prime minister, he…
Keir Starmer can’t afford not to hike defence spending
Over the last few years, defence spending has been higher up the political agenda than at any time since the…
Did Axel Rudakubana deserve a harsher sentence?
The murder of three young girls in Southport last July by Axel Rudakubana was an act of extreme savagery and…
How much longer will Starmer back Reeves?
It’s not been a happy new year for Sir Keir Starmer. The Prime Minister’s Treasury minister Tulip Siddiq has been…
The ‘shocking tactics’ of Kemi Badenoch
Whitehall is being swept by moral outrage. Ministers, in full This Is Spinal Tap mode, have turned their pious horror up…
Kemi Badenoch is right to bide her time
Kemi Badenoch has only been Conservative leader for two months. The next general election is likely to be held in…
Keir Starmer could still walk away from the Chagos deal
When Sir Keir Starmer announced in October that he had reached an agreement with Mauritius to transfer sovereignty of the…
Is training troops in Ukraine a risk worth taking?
Defence Secretary John Healey has raised the possibility that British military personnel could be deployed to Ukraine to carry out…
Will Musk’s millions really carry Farage to victory?
We should be wary about the danger of hyper-rich donors obtaining undue influence over political parties. There is none more…
Keir Starmer has dropped the ball on Ukraine
Has Keir Starmer dropped the ball on Ukraine? Dmytro Kuleba, the Ukrainian former foreign minister, certainly thinks so. Kuleba, who…
France’s defence spending debacle will infuriate Donald Trump
Donald Trump is right that some of Nato’s European members are essentially freeloaders. That these countries are holding talks about…
How Britain should navigate the new nuclear age
The dawn of a third nuclear age demands a ‘national and collective sense of purpose… leadership and a willingness to…
Starmer will struggle to keep both the EU and US happy
We do not have to make a choice between our alliance with the United States and closer relations with the…
