Category: Analysis

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called his country’s free trade agreement with the UK “historic” and it will “further deepen” the comprehensive strategic partnership between both countries. The agreement has been in…

Thousands poured on to the Mall and made their way towards Buckingham Palace – there was no greater sign of the desire to remember. I was struck by the size of the…

It’s five years since Harry and Meghan stepped away from what they saw as the constraints of royal life, and yet if you wanted to see the scale of the ongoing repercussions…

These are two separate and unrelated investigations by counter-terror officers. But the common thread is nationality – seven out of the eight people arrested are Iranian. And that comes in the context…

In a historic parliamentary by-election, Reform’s Sarah Pochin won Runcorn and Helsby by just six votes, a majority of just 0.02% and a swing to Reform from Labour of 17.4 percentage points.  Labour’s…

Timing’s everything for Donald Trump.   The time for sacking Mike Waltz was, clearly, not before the 100-day milestone – the measure of his performance in office. The national security adviser had his…

The minerals deal may be good news for Ukraine, but it is not necessarily bad news for Russia. That’s because a deal with Volodymyr Zelenskyy doesn’t preclude a deal with Vladimir Putin….

It’s 6.25pm on Monday 2 June 2014 and my heart is racing. After 20 years as a national newspaper journalist, plus a few years of working in the City before that, I…

It is often cited as being the “envy of the world”, seen as a gold standard public service broadcaster. But while this latest report ultimately found no evidence of a toxic culture…

As Chancellor Rachel Reeves meets her counterpart, US treasury secretary Scott Bessent to discuss an “economic agreement” between the two countries, the latest trade figures confirm three realities that ought to shape…