The UK made a strategic mistake in dismissing the Messina Conference in 1955. This moment is not as seismic – but the UK should not pass up the opportunity to shape the post-Brexit, post-Ukraine, Europe where it can.
But he says that it has become very clear to European leaders over time that the war is all about the future of international law.
“This country has a big heart,” says the Energy Secretary. “We’ve opened the country to Ukrainian refugees and British nationals from Hong Kong.”
Domestically, the opposition wants to change the constitution, and return the country to being a parliamentary republic. Above all, it promises a return to normalcy.
The Transport Secretary argues that it’s “not our contest, we’re hosting it for Ukraine… hundreds of Ukrainian railway staff have been killed” and so the UK should be “in solidarity” with Ukraine.
The odd thing about this author and his Guardian friends is that they cannot understand movement. Though they think of themselves as progressive, they are in many ways deeply reactionary.
The aim of its attacks is obvious: drive down through the middle of the territory Russia occupies, divide its forces, prevent ammunition and fuel from getting into Crimea, and push into the peninsula once its supplies start running low:
“There is an extensive body of research that demonstrates the damaging effects on social trust and cohesion from uncontrolled migration.”
Around three quarters of all transatlantic cables in the northern hemisphere pass through or near its waters – yet Dublin spends just 0.2 per cent of GDP on defence.
Sunak will hope he is spared a crisis, even if the electoral politics of it could be advantageous.
How would we have felt if our benefactors had grown tired of the burden and attempted to force us into a negotiated settlement with Hitler? Thankfully, Britain had the resolve to continue and our allies remained true.
Too many investors have prioritised moral posturing over either the needs of the nation in a dangerous world or maximising their returns.
My argument is simply one of affordability (including, by the way, by dropping the triple lock) if our public finances are going to be sustainable.
Ministers have protected some of the most vulnerable people in society, during some of the most challenging times the country has faced. They should now adapt the Social Metric Commission’s measure of poverty as a national statistic.
Two years ago, the security of Taiwan was a purely Chinese issue. But the invasion by Russia of Ukraine and China’s more aggressive posturing has changed that picture.