The drama is being orchestrated in North Korea with its showy missile tests and in the US with America’s showy bomber patrols. The loudest noise is being directed at China, accused in Donald Trump’s tweets of “doing nothing” and threatened thus: “We will no longer allow this to continue”. But the country that really feels […]
Emmanuel Macron begins his first week as president of France bearing a heavy weight of expectations. To say that he holds the fate of the West and its liberal democracies in his hands would be to go too far, but his success or failure in office will be hugely influential. That said, his extraordinary journey […]
East Asia has been a paragon of peace for decades, but both North Korea and China seem determined to remind the world – and especially their neighbour Japan – that this mustn’t be taken for granted. On Monday morning, from a base just near its border with China, North Korea launched a test of four […]
On the face of it, Donald Trump’s astonishing victory should be good news for Britain, post-Brexit. The UK will no longer be “at the end of the queue” for trade deals with the US, as President Obama warned, since all the other deals in that queue will now be dropped, especially the Transatlantic Trade and […]
Harold Wilson is alive and well and running Britain’s post-Brexit economic policy. He is telling us why Brexit already means we are worse off and will eventually mean recession, and how that will happen. When Wilson devalued the pound by nearly 15 per cent against the dollar in November 1967, he declared, to later notoriety, […]
The clock is now ticking on Britain’s in-out referendum, which looks likely to be held sometime in 2016. So if the pro-EU camp – in which it is presumed that David Cameron sits – is to prevent that clock from becoming a time-bomb it had better start getting its message out now. But first it […]
My response to Daniel Hannan’s article “Pro-EU propaganda film is a disaster for the BBC” about the film by Annalisa Piras, “The Great European Disaster Movie”, will avoid addressing his ad hominem remarks or questioning his merits as a film critic. Rather, I will respond to his assertions about the nature of the European Union […]
