Our current system is not working, but it would be a mistake to think that this is just because of Covid. What Covid has done…
Our current system is not working, but it would be a mistake to think that this is just because of Covid. What Covid has done…
I normally agree with nearly everything my esteemed colleague Simon Mundy says – especially about the Home Office. The issue is why it is quite…
If you look back at Hansard in 1939 and 1940, you find that leading members of the Labour Party can barely open their mouths without…
“The friendship between the Chinese and Russian people is rock solid and the prospects for future co-operation are immense,” the Chinese Foreign Minister told the…
The incompetence of Home Office immigration staff this century has been truly extraordinary. They have not been fit for purpose in a generation. Almost anybody…
The clock has ticked over, it is 1am and it is no longer International Women’s Day. “I’m late, I’m late, I’m late,” says the White…
It is now a staggering three decades ago – half my lifetime – since I went to the city they are now calling Kharkiv, but…
Like everyone else I am shocked and horrified by the Ukraine crisis and have great sympathy and admiration for the people in the Ukraine and…
A little over two years ago, Nato, the great military alliance of the West born in 1949, was “brain dead”. This was the diagnosis given…
Joe Biden continues to innovate in grand strategy. This is his third strategic innovation in the international arena. The first, in Afghanistan, was his concept…
I have been reading a lovely book by Helena Norberg Hodge about her life in Ladakh, the ancient enclave of Tibetan Buddhism on the Himalayan…