It’s another taste of what a genuinely multipolar world might look like, and ought to be a shot across the bows of our foreign policy establishment.
As both sides have breached the old rule prohibiting direct attacks, yet emerged with their deterrence broadly intact, we cannot discount the prospect of a repeat of April’s regional pinball escalation.
The Conservative Party must continue its commitment to ending malaria and being a leader in international development in its next election manifesto.
The harsh reality is that we cannot let Putin win in Ukraine or it won’t stop there. Xi is already threatening Taiwan, and watches the West’s response.
Simon Harris seems determined to improve the mood music, talking up the need for strong Anglo-Irish relations and refocusing Northern Irish policy on maintaining the peace and building prosperity.
History warns us that nothing good will come from abandoning small nations to Russia’s imperial ambitions.
By investing in areas overseas that are challenged by poverty and conflict, we help reduce the likelihood of the consequences of those challenges, such as terrorism, irregular migration, and humanitarian disasters, reaching the United Kingdom.
Rishi Sunak should fulfil his campaign pledge to ban Confucius Institutes – with primary legislation if necessary.
The UK’s current #BeKind mindset must change if as a society we are ever to reach the level of military readiness aspired to by our NATO partners.
This murder signals that Moscow no longer cares what the collective West thinks, and is set on a course of confrontation. There is a ruthlessness to it the consequences of which we have not yet grasped.
Estonia’s government has, in a White Paper that rightly calls for Russia’s defeat, estimated it could be done at a cost merely of 0.25 per cent of Western GDP over four years.
The fundamentals of our democracy are strong: voters continue to take pride in their community, to respect their neighbours, and to want Britain to be an outgoing, self-confident country that plays its part on the world stage.
It has world-leading expertise in many areas covered by the deal’s Pillar 2 such as artificial intelligence, counter-hypersonic missile technology, underwater drones and offensive cyber.