Keir Starmer's political downfall stemmed from his handling of the Pakistani grooming gangs scandal, which eroded his moral authority and exposed deep systemic issues in governance.
Israel faces a risky crossroads as Washington seeks a US-Iran deal, sparking internal debate on whether to oppose it.
Christians in Africa face increasing violence as Islamist extremism escalates. The West's silence on these brutal attacks raises concerns about the future of vulnerable communities.
The images of riots in the United Kingdom are not a passing nuisance. They are a warning in flames.
“Brezhnev took Afghanistan and Begin took Beirut”, sang Roger Waters back in 1983.
The diplomatic deadlock has been broken and Brussels bigwigs are throwing a party.
Can you vote wishful thoughts into reality?
The systematic degradation of Christian communities in South Asia is not an accident, but a policy.
Two years ago, after the Malmö farce, here in the Brussels Signal comment pages, we issued a warning.
As Donald Trump lands in Beijing to face Xi Jinping, the air is thick with the scent of a historic showdown.
The experiment is over, and the results are in: The British laboratory has blown up in the face of its creators.
The shadow of Alan Parker’s Midnight Express has returned to Istanbul.
Spring flowers are blooming in the Donbas across a landscape of iron and fire.
While Washington remains mired in the tactical mud of the Middle East, acting reckless, erratic, and increasingly lawless, China is playing a calm, long game.
The mess we are in is getting deeper.
While the West focuses on the Iranian firestorm, a quieter tragedy is unfolding in the hills of South Lebanon.
As we enter the second month of the conflict with Iran, it is not heated statements that will decide the war, but cold inventory reports.
Is Pakistan finally facing the monster it created? Is Europe prepared for the consequences? The answer is in the smoke rising over the Durand Line.
Love or hate them, you have to admire them. The Israelis are pulling one trick after another. It’s almost like magic.
Is NATO still a fighting power, or has it become a monument?
The news from earlier this month has been more than revealing.
As the military campaign against the Iranian regime unfolds, the geopolitical landscape is being reshaped by forces far away from the immediate battlefield.
It should by now be rather clear.
The myth of Turkey as an indispensable bridge between East and West is beginning to give in under the weight of its own contradictions.
The drums of war are sounding again across the Middle East.
As the 80th anniversary of Japan’s capitulation is approaching, a strange and unsettling ritual is unfolding in the East.
While enlightened bureaucrats play politburo, Europe’s farmers and consumers are expected to absorb - or maybe fail to absorb - yet another blow.
Just when you thought the West had exhausted its pool of civilisational surrenders, a new frontier of absurdity opens.
As Helen of Troy is about to be portrayed as black in Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey, the latest episode in the war for the soul of the West questions our very fundamentals.
For decades, the capitals of Northern Europe have lived in a comfortable, self-righteous state.
