If Putin hoped that Brexit would detach us from our alliances, there’s no evidence of that happening so far, and much to the contrary.
The Court of Appeal’s judgement in the Begum case is a reminder of wider issues – and the pledge in last December’s manifesto.
For the Party to take it off him is one thing; for the Government to recast the committee, or try to, would be quite another.
As the great eye of the Conservative Party swivels its gaze towards the Far East, it’s in danger of missing other threats that are closer to home.
They deserve more attention in our developing foreign and security policy – since the Middle East matters massively to global peace and prosperity.
We need a special regime: a UK plc with a government-owned ‘golden share’, giving the Government special powers.
The Government is poised to reverse the trend to competition rather than collaboration that has marked healthcare policy for 30 years.
How its mass insulation scheme went wrong. Plus: let Politics Live thrive, Cummings travel, and ask yourself: why can’t we all just get along?
Given the EU’s risk levels, its lack of investment in NATO and its poor relations with its neighbours, it is hardly an attractive partner; more of a liability.
It is our third largest market – we must work with it if we are to help resolve global problems from the environment to nuclear proliferation.
I could reveal how it was made available to me, but I’d have to shoot you were I to tell you.
Three million of them are unlikely to pitch up here, but government must plan for all eventualities – and support for its plan wouldn’t survive a mass influx.
Post-Covid, the environment is likely to be egalitarian and interventionist. For libertarian, small state Eurosceptics, this must come as a disappointment.
I know that government needs a cross-Whitehall programme that actively engages with the myriad of departments and agencies.