There is an outside, long shot chance of saving Ukraine and the Western Alliance—Buy American. I don’t mean American cars or cereal. I mean something which really costs—American weaponry ...

Recent Comments Mick Taylor One has to look at this in the mid to long term. At some point (not soon for me I hope) baby boomers like me will drop off the end and a whole chunk of pensione ...

What the hell happened in Barnet? That was our best ward there, with our candidates averaging 26.2% at the last election. Not only should the local party have thrown everything at it but it’s in ...

Six years after his premature death at age 77, Paddy Ashdown is making a comeback in the interests of the party’s immediate future. Well, not really. But Paddy’s name does adorn a new ...

It’s almost 3 years since I first had Covid, an experience which has made my life a lot smaller. My road to recovery from Long Covid has been erratic and very, very slow. It’s only now that I ...

Today is International Women’s Day, a day to celebrate the inspirational women we know and to recognise that we still have a long way to go to achieve equality for half the population in almost ...

Friedrich Merz is steaming ahead—and he hasn’t even formed his government. The string bean leader of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is certain to be chancellor as soon as he has ...

On this International Women’s Day, I want to celebrate the greatest hero in my life — my mother, Amtal. My mother is a woman of extraordinary strength, resilience, and unwavering principles.

At last year’s general election, the British people voted for change following nearly a decade of chaos under the Conservatives punctuated by austerity, Brexit, mismanagement of the COVID-19 ...

It’s easy to argue that today’s failures – public services, low investment, poor productivity, decaying infrastructure, environmental degradation, etc – are the result of 10-15 years of economic ...

Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey and Hull Council Leader Mike Ross have today called for “the polluters to pay” for any clean up of the North Sea following this week’s ship collision, as well as for a ...

The Scottish National Party has long promoted an unrealistic vision of Scotland’s defence in the event of independence. Their incoherent and reckless approach, outlined in the deeply flawed 2014 White ...