The invasion of Ukraine and the death of globalisation
Putin’s savage invasion of Ukraine, and the West’s collective response, is the moment that the slow death of financial and…
Expelling Russia from Swift would be a massive economic shock
If Russia is expelled from the Swift banking messaging system, that would be serious economic warfare against Putin. Because Thursday’s…
Will Ukraine become Putin's Afghanistan?
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace may be right that Russian troops have not succeeded in all their immediate objectives, that they…
How should Boris respond to 'crazy' Putin?
Putin’s invasion has begun, and its scale is worse than even the gloomy fears of British intelligence sources and the…
What is Boris's partygate defence?
The presumption of many MPs — and maybe many of you — is that the Met is bound to issue…
The Ukraine crisis has united the West
There has been a subtle change of tone from Joe Biden and Boris Johnson about the likelihood of a Russian…
Has Rishi Sunak blocked Boris's NHS recovery plan?
The Treasury on Saturday prevented an announcement pencilled in for tomorrow of the so-called ‘elective recovery plan’, the multi-billion pound…
Rishi Sunak’s cost of living gamble
The Chancellor is lending £200 this year to anyone who pays an energy bill in their own name. That’s 28…
Boris Johnson's future is now in the hands of the police
The power of Sue Gray’s ‘update’ of her investigation into parties at 10 Downing Street and the Cabinet Office is as…
Can the Tories afford to grant Boris Johnson a reprieve?
This was supposed to be the week of judgement for Boris Johnson and assorted Downing Street officials about whether they…
An omen of oblivion for Boris from a Tory MP
The Prime Minister revealed on Tuesday, during an interview with broadcasters, his testimony to Sue Gray, who he gave the mandate…
The bombshell email that could spell disaster for Boris
I know who sent the email to Martin Reynolds on 20 May 2020 telling him the planned ‘bring your own…
Boris Johnson's bid to save his own skin could easily backfire
Militarising the border with France and abolishing the BBC licence fee may seem an extreme way to win back estranged…
How will Boris punish himself if his No. 10 party did break the rules?
The final arbiter of whether Boris Johnson should be punished or sanctioned for allegedly breaking lockdown rules by attending that…
Boris Johnson is becoming a risk to his own Covid rules
‘It feels like a tipping point. Trust in Boris is collapsing. It could be fatal’. So spoke a senior Tory,…
Why there is more Omicron than we know
Yesterday the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) announced it had identified another 26 Omicron cases, and the total number of…
The key difference between Johnson and Starmer
Here is the symbolic difference between Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer. Johnson at the CBI rocked up with a bunch…
Why I didn’t get a hug at COP26
COP26 is not your typical power summit, because world leaders, NGOs and hacks are all in the same scrum. Outside…
Boris Johnson, unlikely eco warrior
Boris Johnson is famously a politician who sees the glass half full, and whose instincts are to hope that a…
Has Cop 26 already flopped?
‘There is no chance of stopping climate change next week,’ the Prime Minister told me in an interview for ITV…
The real reason Britain failed on coronavirus
The joint health and science super-committee’s report into ‘lessons learned’ on the UK’s coronavirus response may not want to ‘point fingers…
Could the squeeze on living standards bring down Boris?
There is about to be a two-phase onslaught on the living standards of those on low-to-middling incomes. On 1 October…
We'll all pay the price for reckless energy firms' gambling
You know that mate of yours who is always boasting they pay way less for energy than you because they’re…
Why Johnson's tax gamble will pay off
Boris Johnson’s announcement today, promising he will fix the £15 billion hole in health and social care, may well be…
Will Johnson's cabinet of cardboard cutouts make a stand?
Cabinet government has become a very degraded thing. When I checked last night, cabinet ministers had still not been told…
