Preventing unseaworthy ships from passing through the Baltic with polluting cargo does not prevent Russia from navigating them. It just requires them to use acceptably safe ships to do so. But there’s a reason they have a shadow fleet that aren’t safe.
From a moral perspective, a government has a duty of care towards its citizens and the importing of people with life changing, non-curable diseases is a failure of that duty.
As China and Russia and India build closer links in Britain there are more pressing matters than strategic relevance and a coherent China policy: ministerial musical chairs, another governing party talking to itself, and the ‘Mandelson Distraction’.
Lord Roberts is man of identity not of sophistry, economics or calculation. Equally, I wonder if the British imperial apologists have not bound up their identity with the idea of a noble Pax Britannica, and I wonder if that isn’t a misreading of the historical record.
Prof Kealey wrote on ConHome last week that The British Empire, cannot have been a good thing because the British did not build waterways. In fact, they built easily the most extensive waterways in the world at that time.
At Conservative Friends of India, we’ll keep championing these opportunities and making sure this deal delivers for businesses and communities across the UK.
The public are weary of arguments about “dynamic alignment” and the minutiae of trade arrangements. There is growing concern about the direction of travel – what Labour says appears to be increasingly at odds with what it actually does and how it hurts the very people they claim to represent.
The Prime Minister is fed up with attacks from parliamentarians who never say how they themselves would balance the books.
Our deputy editor debates the ins and outs of Labour’s new national insurance regime for Indian workers on GB News’ State of the Nation.
Indian nationals still received approximately 127,000 work visas, making them the largest group of work visa recipients by nationality. Regardless of our evolving trade relations, Indian nationals are already arriving in Britain in huge numbers, a fact that myopic press coverage of these FTA talks ignores.
The privatisation of nationalised manufacturers and heavy industries should have been domestic. The majority shareholding should have been legally required to remain in UK hands. Be that by UK Plcs with British nationals as the majority on their board – or some other means.
The United Kingdom, despite being almost forty times smaller than the United States, will approve twenty-five times as much permanent residency applications from India by 2026 onwards.
The common style of the journalistic takeover of historical writing can be best described as the replacement of real, investigative scholarship with midwit fact-checking.
He was dressed head to toe in black, both hands in his pockets, wearing both a hoodie and a black face covering. Was he a threat? I don’t know. But I certainly did not want to take my chances.
If a nation applies restrictions against British citizens in its realm, then there should be restrictions against their citizens in the United Kingdom.