Category: Analysis

The first of April marks the turn of the financial year as well as Fool’s Day, but the cost of living increases arriving this month are no joke.  Combined water, energy, council…

Of all Sir Keir Starmer’s tactics to ingratiate himself with Donald Trump, maybe heading to the driving range will become the prime minister’s priority. That’s the advice of John Bolton – national…

Sir Keir Starmer told delegates at today’s border security summit that the UK has not taken a tough enough approach to illegal migration for too long.  In fact, he said, it had…

Marine Le Pen’s political career lies in tatters. After decades of plotting her ascent to the very pinnacle of French politics, she has now been pushed down the mountain, and her fall…

The world’s highest mountain range – the Himalayas – is a testament to the power of plate tectonics.  Forced upwards by the gradual northward push of the Indian plate into the Eurasian…

Words. Lots of them. Two statements from the White House – one about negotiations with Ukraine, another about negotiations with Russia. A version from Ukraine’s president and another from the Kremlin. Follow…

The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has given its latest take on the economy, and it’s full of big changes to its economic projections but also plenty of red flags about the…

As European summits on the Ukraine war go, this one had the feel of a tempting, high-end takeaway meal. You look forward to it and it tastes great. The delivery is superb,…

In less than a fortnight, Donald Trump has shredded long-standing security assumptions about American support for Europe, creating a new crisis for Ukraine and leaving the whole continent in greater peril than…

Sir Keir Starmer will this week go to Washington to try to help broker a just peace deal for Ukraine with a capricious president who in just a week has unwound a…