On a blaring hot Saturday, Labour modernisers from across the country gathered in a glitzy London conference hall to attend the first Progressive Britain Annual Conference held during a Labour government in over a decade. As Darren Jones noted, the atmosphere was decidedly distinct to the Annual conferences of past
The small town of Ranya in Iraqi Kurdistan once loomed large in British foreign policy and now matters a great deal to Labour’s migration policy. The Kurdish uprising against Saddam Hussein’s genocidal dictatorship began there in 1991 and was nearly crushed before John Major pioneered a safe haven over the
One year ago, the UK and our allies defended Israel from an unprecedented direct attack on the Jewish state by Iran and its terrorist proxies – with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) playing a lead role in choregraphing this onslaught of missiles. But, as well as being an ongoing
The Labour government is realising that the economic structural constraints on British economic policy making are real. Deteriorating global economic circumstances have forced the Treasury to enforce spending cuts to departments in order to remain within the fiscal rules. Bond market shifts, the backlash to taxation plans and the importance
In early March 2025 Prime Minister Donald Tusk of Poland called for his country to have access to nuclear weapons and vowed to increase massively the size of its army. Within a fortnight Poland and the Baltic states announced their intention to withdraw from the Ottawa Convention banning anti-personnel land
“You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.”- Anthony Eden Defence is an insurance policy against an uncertain future. No sane citizen would ever want their nation to go to war, but history suggests that the
Saturday’s emergency legislation demonstrates that this Labour Government is prepared to act decisively when it comes to protecting sovereign industrial capabilities. There are critics both inside and outside Whitehall who have argued that this will undermine the confidence of foreign investors looking at the UK as a potential market but
The high octane theatrics of recent weeks in Washington have frazzled and terrified the world. It’s all been great TV as Donald Trump revealingly said after kneecapping the Ukrainian President in the Oval Office and in his big bang announcement on tariffs. Will Hutton eloquently nails the fundamental flaws in
Similar to ITV’s Mr Bates vs the Post Office, Netflix’s Adolescence has brought to the fore of public consciousness a crisis that has been brewing for some time now – the masculinity crisis and susceptibility of young men to the Manosphere. Whether this can be turned into effective action remains
On Tuesday, Jim Chalmers, the Australian Treasurer, handed down the Albanese Government’s fourth Budget. Given that the deadline to call an election is looming, this Budget gives the Australian Labor Party (ALP) a chance to remind voters of the recent tax cuts and rebates they’ve enjoyed thanks to the government,
