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Labour’s attack lines are working
Rachel Reeves is getting better and better as Shadow Chancellor. Mind you, her response to Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement was…
Three ways Hunt’s Autumn Statement will be judged
The government expects its Autumn Statement to be judged on three tests. First of all, how do the markets react?…
Will the Autumn Statement break the Tory truce?
It’s crunch day for Rishi Sunak. This morning his Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will stand at the despatch box and unveil…
What can we expect from Hunt’s Autumn Statement?
Later this morning Jeremy Hunt will deliver his first Autumn Statement as Chancellor. With the focus firmly on the dire…
The Republican Party machine needs to be overhauled
The GOP absolutely blew a historic opportunity in the 2022 midterms and, sadly, it seems nothing in the party will…
Is Xi drifting away from Putin?
There’s been none of the wolf warriorism we’ve become used to from Chinese diplomats as President Xi met world leaders…
Watch: Xi rips into Trudeau
Justin Trudeau might be the self-anointed king of elite liberal opinion but it appears his methods find little favour with…
Does Westminster even care about the Union?
The Supreme Court will hand down its judgment in the Scottish independence referendum case next Wednesday. This is the reference…
Big Pickleball is coming for your tennis court
One morning this past summer I played tennis with two friends at the John J. Carty tennis courts in Bay Ridge,…
NATO acquits itself well in the Poland missile crisis
Mid-afternoon Tuesday, a missile struck the town of Przewodow in eastern Poland close to the Ukrainian border, killing two. The…
Is China finally easing its zero Covid strategy?
China’s president Xi Jinping has shaken hands with more world leaders over the last two days than he has met…
A worrying lesson from the Polish missile tragedy
When what seems to have been a Ukrainian S-300 air defence missile accidentally hit the village of Przewodów in Poland,…
How Russia responded to the Polish missile incident
Yesterday, during the largest wave of missile strikes conducted by Russia since February, a shell flew six kilometres over the…
The problem with Ronaldo’s betrayal narrative
Cristiano Ronaldo has almost certainly played his last game for Manchester United after an ‘explosive’ interview which ‘the whole world’s…
Just Stop Oil aren’t like the suffragettes
What do Just Stop Oil protesters have in common with the suffragettes? Their antics of blocking motorways and chucking tomato…
Nato to meet amid uncertainty over missile that hit Poland
Uncertainty still surrounds what happened with the missile that struck the village of Przewodów in Poland, around four miles from…
Sam Bankman-Fried and the twilight of the ‘Effective Altruists’
Crypto whizzkid Sam Bankman-Fried has come a cropper. His $16 billion (£13 billion) fortune vanished overnight last week after FTX, the crypto exchange he…
The decline and fall of Sergei Lavrov
First came the claims that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was admitted to hospital in Bali on arriving for the…
Inflation hits 11.1 per cent
There had been quiet but growing optimism from some economists that inflation in Britain was nearing its peak as the…
Trump’s pox upon his party
Donald Trump has some well-proven abilities – the ability to cost Republicans winnable elections for the House and Senate, the…
Trump announces 2024 bid
Former US president Donald Trump last night announced his candidacy for the 2024 election at his Florida resort in Mar-a-Lago…
The troubling rise of the Israeli far-right
Something troubling has happened in Israel. The previous government, before it collapsed earlier this month, had been remarkable for its…
Why Murdoch dumped Trump
“He’s done.” That was the general consensus when I asked around about Donald Trump’s future in politics this week. And…
The missile strike on Poland will be a test for Nato
Since the start of the war, there has been a risk of Ukraine’s neighbours being caught in crossfire – especially…
The midterm results are good for Republicans, if not great
The dust is still settling around the congressional midterms, but it looks like Republicans will retake the House by a…
