Jeremy Corbyn’s performance in Prime Minister’s question time last week on the nerve gas attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter was met with predictable…
Are we returning to Dr Folamour’s dark days? Are the Americans and the Russians looking to replay their nuclear war of the Cold War years,…
Strategically, the 1990s were a golden decade for the West. For the North American-European couple, whose marriage – a marriage of the head if not…
The latest Syrian-Israeli military incident is not simply an unfortunate slip-up. It indicates an escalation in the Middle East, one fraught with danger in the…
With the end of the Cold War, we believed that the discussion about nuclear weapons had shifted from the superpowers to ‘proliferating’ middle powers, such…
In many countries, mainstream politics have become stagnant, enabling the political success of reactionary forces like Brexit, euroscepticism, secessionist movements and worse. This has put…
I went along to the Worthing Dome at the weekend to see the film Darkest Hour, and it was extremely good – atmospheric, brilliantly acted and…
The UK government’s approach to the Brexit negotiations has involved a considerable amount of threats and complaints. The latest was David Davis’ warning that there…
December 14 marked an important event in Asia: the start of a reconciliation between China and South Korea. Beijing had taken Seoul to task for…
So the ‘Jamaica’ coalition discussions hit the skids in Germany and Angela Merkel may have to think again. The sheer difficulty of getting CDU, CSU,…
This last Tuesday, November 28, a new session of talks between the opposition and the Syrian government opened in Geneva, under the auspices of the…
It wasn’t a short speech – and certainly not a snappy title: “Secure a decisive victory in building a moderately prosperous society in all respects…