A British diplomatic source tells me that “President” al-Jolani aka al-Sharaa has assured the UK that Syria will “normalise relations” with Israel, recognise the State of Israel and exchange ...

Brian Red April 8, 2025 at 12:24 Interleckshooals or others interested in the question of “where we are now” may be interested in this. The authorities in Britain are trying to get what remains of the ...

Jack January 9, 2025 at 16:11 Trump is such a weird person, he have sometimes very sensible views – like retweeting a Jeffrey Sachs video – but then, he seems to have completely opposite views, on the ...

Keir Starmer has left about 70% of the landscape of historic western political and economic thought vacant to his left. It is unsurprising that a new party will arrive to claim the unoccupied ground.

On 1 April Scotland’s notorious Hate Crime Act comes into force. I have explained before why it is so noxious. It has been condemned by every civil liberties body you can think of. Police Scotland ...

In finding there is a plausible case against Israel, the International Court of Justice treated with contempt the argument from Israel that the case should be dismissed as it is exercising its right ...

frankywiggles January 13, 2024 at 14:54 The selective reporting and misinformation could hardly be more blatant at this point. They are unlikely to be fooling anybody with half a brain. Edward Snowden ...

Chris March 27, 2023 at 17:49 Beat me to it. I would suggest that experience convinced the Chinese not to get too militarily adventurous and concentrate on maintaining power at home. Something else to ...

Stevie Boy January 2, 2023 at 12:12 I suspect there is more, much more to actually having a nuke than just having a big boy in the cupboard at the defence ministry left behind by your old bosses. You ...

Roger December 3, 2022 at 16:24 all that luggage … Finding it difficult simply to lift the luggage. Replacing a 1-night stay at a good(ish) hotel near the middle of your trip that has express laundry ...

Ian September 29, 2022 at 22:06 The mainstream media don’t report this stuff. Most people are blissfully unaware of these machinations, taking as they do a glance at politics now and then. This has ...

Ort September 29, 2020 at 16:42 Reply to Deb O’Nair Yes, exactly. I was about to comment that if “… the British no longer whine…” etc., it will be because they’ve escalated the whining into full-bore ...