Britain's seventh prime minister in a decade faces scrutiny over the nation's future, echoing concerns of inadequate leadership and its historical ties with Europe and the…
Zubin Mehta's cancellation of engagements in Israel due to Netanyahu's politics sparked controversy, while the Church of England engaged with a document alleging genocide…
President Trump demonstrates control over Iran amid escalating tensions in the Middle East, leveraging significant oil blockades, while the Democrats face increasing internal…
Europe faces severe discomfort this summer due to a lack of air-conditioning, stemming from decades of climate policies that compromised energy security and economic stability.
The UK is facing unprecedented political turmoil as Andy Burnham is poised to become the seventh prime minister in ten years, reflecting a rapid turnover in leadership.
London's Mayor Sadiq Khan has ordered the covering of Sir Winston Churchill's statue, igniting widespread criticism regarding the perceived marginalization of historical figures…
We seem finally to have reached the dénouement in the long, extremely one-sided, and comparatively bloodless war the United States and Israel have conducted with Iran.
The now infamous Henry Nowak tragedy in Britain, from last December, is now seen throughout the Western world as indicative of the terrible dangers of the cult of self-hate…
With the focus on the Middle East, there has been comparatively little attention paid for some months to the Ukraine War.
A piece in the London Spectator of May 2 by Rod Liddle is a reminder of the imperishable spiteful envy towards America that still disturbs the minds of many of the British.
It does not seem that the world is paying much attention to the vacuum in international relations and public policy that has been created by the sudden transformation of the…
The problems of the Western Alliance have not been caused by oversensitive hurt feelings and are not an appropriate subject for the kind of name-calling that has gone on both…
All those whose psychological equilibrium is disturbed by the ability of the United States to take dramatic unilateral action without collegialising its decisions with a bunch…
As this piece is written on Tuesday afternoon, the Iran war continues to be unprecedented in a number of respects.
The intemperate exchange between President Trump and Pope Leo XIV over the weekend said nothing flattering or even positive about either of them.
As this is written we are awaiting confirmation that the United States and Israel will escalate their attacks on Iran which has continued to respond frivolously to demands…
Just before the start of the Second Gulf War in 2003, British Prime Minister Tony Blair approached me as a Conservative member of the House of Lords and asked for my and my…
German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier’s statement last week that the Iran war is a ”disastrous mistake” and a violation of international law is an outrage.
The Western European NATO allies of the United States appear to be celebrating what they mistakenly believe is the discomfort the Americans and Israelis are now encountering…
It is emerging that the overwhelming US and Israeli defeat of the armed forces and repressive police of the Islamic Republic of Iran is already beginning to alter the international…
Some readers will recall that last week I posed the question of what sort of an alliance the British government might think it had with United States after denying that country…
The blunderbuss British government of Keir Starmer, now wallowing in the upper teens in the polls, struggling to keep a paper-thin lead over the Conservatives, the Liberal…
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s address to the Munich Security Conference last week has ricocheted around Europe and the world as a stirring and conciliatory framework…
European incomprehension of President Trump has now been stretched to reluctant acknowledgement of the success of his economic policies with dire warnings of the approach…
The rampant state of anti-Semitism in Britain has raised the question, long completely implausible, of the legitimacy of the United Kingdom’s claim to be a civilised country.
In this space last week I recounted with a mixture of sadness and amusement the farce of Greenland that had already almost reached Monty Python proportions.
The unfolding of the Greenland controversy has already become one of the most extraordinary episodes in the entire 237-year history of the presidency of the United States.
As this is written, I continue to watch my preferred American news channel in hopes of hearing of the arrival in the Iranian airspace of the US Air Force and Naval Air Force…
It has been disappointing but not entirely surprising to see the widespread hysteria in Europe in support of the illegitimate Maduro gangster regime in Venezuela, and the…
There was a widespread European reaction of offended sensibilities last week to the customary statement of a relatively new US administration of its strategic objectives.
