The author has the abilities of a sketchwriter, but not of Edmund Burke.
Many of Tory MPs will be sick and tired of the self-reverential obsequies attached to the Committee’s deliberation and verdict – and of the hysteria, hate, vitriol and venom directed at a man without whom many would never have had the opportunity to serve in Parliament.
The upside of a new cross-party appointments process would be distance from the government of the day. The downside is the danger of boiling it down to a lowest common denominator.
He was the most formidable Chancellor of the Twentieth Century and a titan of the modern Conservative Party – voting for Sunak and endorsing his approach in last summer’s Tory leadership election.,
This Government is committed to championing the needs of those who have given so much, and will continue to build on the huge strides already taken to genuinely improve veterans’ care across the United Kingdom.
Removing the leader of Al-Qaeda is welcome. But it will not undo the damage the last twenty years have done to America’s reputation in the eyes of the young.
One controversy may be considered to be a misfortune, two looks like carelessness and three suggests a pattern of behaviour.
Ministers should do nothing to make a coup less likely as the country’s elites come to terms with the consequences of war.
Lessons from how the eastern part of the Roman Empire flourished after the western part of it fell.
Is the British public remotedly prepared for possible cyber attacks aimed at our national infrastructure?
As with the Iraq War, the public is none too appreciative when it realises it has been misled, not least thanks to dodgy data.
In tandem with countries like Canada, Australia, New Zealand and France, we should consider a stronger humanitarian-orientated alliance which has teeth.
Mainly because people didn’t want troops to be there (or in the Middle East) in the first place.
They have grown up in a cultural milieu that denigrates Britain’s culture and history to the point that the idea it is even worthy of respect – never mind dying for – is ridiculous.