Category: Analysis

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…

This is the moment the government finally woke up to the enormity of the threat faced by the UK and the inability of its hollowed-out armed forces to cope. But make no…

“The Seventh Carbon Budget Advice for the UK government” couldn’t sound more tedious. But it is arguably the most consequential report to date for the UK’s economy and, perhaps, the political fortunes…

Love him or loathe him, Donald Trump is getting results. Sir Keir Starmer’s visit to the court of the Donald is a case in point. For years American presidents have been urging…

The jailing of Mike Amesbury for 10 weeks for assault means Sir Keir Starmer potentially faces his first by-election test since becoming prime minister. Officially, the 55-year-old former Labour MP for Runcorn…

Five years ago, BP’s chief executive did something very unusual for the boss of an oil and gas company – he pledged to produce less oil and gas.  Standing in front of…

I’ve been on quite a few trips now to the White House with successive prime ministers, but I can’t remember one that mattered as much as this.  As Keir Starmer himself puts…

Why was Germany divided in two? After Germany lost in World War Two, the country was split into four zones of occupation that were controlled by the UK, US, France and the…

The fiery and very public bust-up between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a disaster for Ukraine and its European allies and a triumph for Russia. The spectacle of the US president…

Did you know there’s a critical product – one without which we’d all be dead – which Europe is actually importing more of from Russia now than before the invasion of Ukraine?…