Space is exciting science. It is bold human exploration. But it is also a crucial environment for complex geo-political rivalries too. Artemis II was a model of international collaboration very different from the MAGA rhetoric. Even America now is not trying to do it all on its own.
Strategic competition between major powers is intensifying. In that environment, middle powers cannot simply assume stability will hold.
Such tax or spend changes would be economically apocalyptic; there is no realistic avenue in which to fund a return to the EU.
Focussed on domestic issues, the November budget made no reference as to how the 5 per cent NATO defence spending target will be met. The UK Government is doing too little to prepare the British people for the security challenges ahead.
Conservatives should be pressuring Keir Starmer to stand unequivocally with our European allies against economic coercion. Not out of sentimentality, but out of self-interest.
Unlike in other European countries, British civilians have engaged themselves in an active role in defending Ukraine.
His brutishness recalls Jackson, but his isolationism can be traced back to Washington.
We don’t know for sure what was discussed in the meeting, and with Zelenskyy due in Washington on Monday, we may yet see progress. But I fear that this time, Trump miscalculated.
For most of my political lifetime, patriotism and national interest have largely been the preserve of the centre-right. This is no longer the case. The Trumpian view of American nationalism has prompted a response on the centre-left we might call “progressive patriotism”
But he could also use his electoral weakness as a spur to carry out the serious reforms which Germany and Europe need.
The Business Secretary denies Prime Minister Keir Starmer has overruled Rachel Reeves on defence spending.
A unilateral failure here risks turning the UK into Europe’s backdoor and leaving Germany or France’s illegal immigrants with a strong incentive to move to a non-enforcing state, us.
He reported the weakness of the British Establishment when faced by Hitler.
Calling for a ‘proper Brexit’ after all those that have been tried and failed over the past decade, is reminiscent of those Marxists arguing that their ideology was never properly tried in practice and next time will be different.