As the Guardian has reported: Nadhim Zahawi was rejected for a peerage by the Conservatives just weeks before he defected to Reform UK, Tory sources have told
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The pace of what is happening in the world right now is astonishing, almost frightening, and probably alienating for many. I turn on the television
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On 20 January, Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the US Congress, is going to address both Houses of Parliament. This, I gather, is unprecedented. The
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Voltaire supposedly said: Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. The logic is that if people surrender their reason and
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We are just one working week into 2026, but it feels very much longer. The US has invaded a country illegally and seized its president.
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I cannot be alone in thinking that 2026 is already proving to be a very long year. The killing of Renee Good by ICE operatives
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I posted this on Twitter (X) last night: I posted after listening to John Healey MP, our defence secretary, talking in the House of Commons.
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The United States is openly threatening to take Greenland, a self-governing territory linked to Denmark and therefore to NATO. That creates a crisis no one
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RobertJ wrote this in a comment on the blog last night (I have edited only very slightly, for presentation purposes): The problem [we have] is
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