Our nation was hailed by the Economist as the “top-performing economy of 2023” for the second year in a row. That isn’t a turnaround, that’s a miracle – a miracle delivered by common sense.
The Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, “one of the most critical routes for global trade” according to the International Maritime Organisation.
Instead of merely clarifying points of confusion, the ALP proposes to seriously row back on reforms, passed with cross-party support in 2006, that aimed to reduce systemic bias against fathers.
No decent person can support piracy or missile attacks on peaceful merchant vessels. Someone has to defend the global order. Not for the first time, that someone is the Anglo-American alliance.
“We are prepared to follow our words and warnings with actions”, Cameron tells Kuenssberg.
Excluding many young pro-democracy activists, coupled with the prolonged waiting period for asylum seekers, paints a grim picture of incompetence and ignorance by officials overseeing the process.
Fifty years on from Edward Heath, another Conservative Prime Minister faces their premiership being brought even lower by a Middle Eastern energy shock.
Originally founded by exiles from Labour’s neoliberal wing, it is now an important part of the new right-wing coalition government in Wellington.
We should not shy away from facing the many unsavoury episodes of imperial history. The consequences of Britain’s historical actions are still shaping world events negatively. But that doesn’t mean the moral wrongs of our ancestors should necessarily dominate and guide our actions today.
The undoubted prestige of having an Irishman in a leading global role would be offset by potential short term political pain, not welcome at any time but especially in a potential election year.
The danger is that the conflict slowburns into a wider one, with hostilities between Israel and Iran’s proxies accelerating, and knock-on consequences for inflation and Putin’s war in Ukraine.
Republican challengers are putting their own egos ahead of any coordinated effort to beat the former president, whilst any move against Biden are likely to come later, at the Democratic National Convention.
The Foreign Secretary ought to say something to mark the crossing of a new red-line: the labelling of British citizens as criminal in Jimmy Lai’s sham trial.