We should take pride in seven decades of refugee protection, and it is a principle we must uphold in the future too.
We urgently need an inquiry to understand our strategic failures in the country, and what went wrong.
Galloway is furthering a dangerous communalism – by dragging conflicts overseas towards the centre of domestic political discourse.
The former Veterans Minister discusses support for veterans, his frustrations with politics, Cummings, extremism in the Armed Forces and more.
Yesterday, he bent the passage of time – by giving the Commons the chance to carry out a Covid reckoning before the inquiry is up and running.
All three PMs did about as well as anyone could in the circumstances, and all three, so far as one can see, are doomed.
Britons can be very proud that he quickly answered the calls of the Kurds at the moment of their righteous rebellion and intense suffering.
Plus: The Government will soon have to set out the tough decisions on public spending to constituents.
This old-style socialist turns out to be much more of a small-c conservative than his many critics are willing to admit.
It is hard to find any precedent for the path that he has chosen. What furies drive him? Why this frantic activity?
It will uphold the election manifesto pledge to protect our service personnel against vexatious claims and the growing judicialization of warfare.
Let’s have a no-holds-barred strategic review which asks how we can best defend our interests given the vertiginous acceleration of military technology.
We could have degraded Al Qaeda and then left. Or else pursued a proper counter-insurgency plan. Instead, we did neither.