Our current legal and political machinery lands the mother of a 13-year-old daughter in prison for over a year over some nasty words online yet pours its energies to rescuing a man who detests Britain.
If you’re going to grant someone citizenship, perhaps a background check is in order. The European parliament managed to do it before awarding a freedom of thought prize; British citizenship is a bigger prize than that.
The UK needs to entrust more power and resources to individuals and local groups themselves, rather than dispensing so much aid via big bureaucracies. Time to focus on what these communities do have, rather than what they lack.
He reported the weakness of the British Establishment when faced by Hitler.
It is imperative that future UK governments invest heavily in the work being done by Cameron and Andrew Mitchell, and that this approach to foreign policy and development does not get lost in the likely transition to a Labour government.
A new report proposes a budgetary increase of some £10 billion a year that would be lavished on a rebranded, semi-independent body called “Global Affairs UK”, run by people who disdain our traditions and want to put our mid-sized, offshore country firmly in its place.
Or: “Why Marjorie Taylor Greene was not entirely wrong to tell the Foreign Secretary to kiss her ass”.
The author recalls the high hopes with which Blair entered power in 1997, and the extreme difficulty of devising a viable European policy.
“We are prepared to follow our words and warnings with actions”, Cameron tells Kuenssberg.
The Foreign Secretary talks to Trevor Phillips about performing his role from the House of Lords.
My last Chagos piece, one year ago on 28 December 2022, expressed the hope that 2023 would be my final post and that a satisfactory conclusion to the UK/Mauritius negotiations announced in a statement on 3 November 2022 would be reached. Why the hold-up?
In his youth he was mocked for being weird, but in middle age he upholds conventional wisdom.
He will likely be subject to more expert scrutiny than he would in the Commons – and if MPs want more opportunities to hold him directly to account, Parliament can create them.
As we were calling for a civilian government to somehow seize control through the sheer, shining force of democratic righteousness, Russia and Iran were less romantic.