When the news came through late last week that Keir Starmer had dropped the Diego Garcia Bill from the King’s Speech – meaning it will not be in the next legislative session – many asked if this is really the end of the road for the dreadful deal. The twists and turns of the Chagos […]
When the Prime Minister stood at his lectern outside UK Permanent Joint Headquarters at Northwood to announce his mind-boggling Chagos giveaway last week, he adduced one point into his argument with even more studied earnestness than usual. In an increasingly dangerous world, Starmer claimed, ‘Russia, China, Iran’ opposed the agreement – and therefore his deal […]
Last week, Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 jet became the first civilian aircraft to break the sound barrier since Concorde when the US company’s demonstrator aircraft achieved supersonic flight over a Californian desert. The aircraft, which accelerated to 10% faster than the speed of sound, is the company’s trailblazer product, leading the way to the development of […]
When the Labour Government gleefully said in October last year that it had agreed with the Mauritian Government to hand over sovereignty of British Indian Ocean Territory and it was all a done deal, I knew that ministers were massively underestimating the fightback. Just nine days before they made the announcement, I had asked the […]
