The world watches with deep anxiety how Israel will respond to the 200 ballistic missiles launched at it from Iran on Tuesday night. In April a similar attack, mounted by hundreds of drones, was launched in response to an Israeli strike near to the Iranian consulate in Syria. What followed
In view of the return of war in Europe and the unprecedented global challenges, the Joint Declaration by Prime Minister Starmer and Chancellor Scholz is promising. Europe – not just the EU – needs to be strengthened as a global player, and German-British relations in particular could become an important
For 10 days between December 9 and 19 2023, the electricity grid in the state of South Australia, home to 1.9 million, was powered entirely by renewable energy. It was an Australian first, and reflected the real-world implementation of vision first articulated some two decades earlier by the state’s Labor
“The party is for everyone” Levar Stoney, Mayor of Richmond Virginia, day 2 of the DNC. I was lucky enough to be invited as a guest of the Progressive Policy Institute to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this week. It’s a hard thing to sum up, a gigantic carnival
The Paris Olympics have just drawn to a close where, amid all the great moments of sporting drama, the heavy security arrangements were always visible in the background. Over 73,000 security personnel, including almost 20,000 soldiers were needed. This is a far cry from the roughly 30,000 security personnel deemed
Penge, Paris, and Southport were linked by recent hostile Russian actions. A Russian criminal cyberattack badly disrupted blood services in Penge and south east London. It is likely, though unconfirmed, that Russian saboteurs or proxies attacked railways to disrupt the Paris Olympics. Russian bots and state backed media certainly amplified
The new Labour government will face many challenges, foremost amongst these is the issue of national security. The world around us is the most volatile it has been since the end of the Cold War, with conflict raging in Europe, across the Middle East and Africa, and fresh conflicts threatening
When Democratic primary voters selected Joe Biden to be the Party’s standard bearer in 2020, the faithful made their choice in a very specific context: the Trump administration. Like with Labour facing a Tory government gone off the rails, progressive in the U.S. were determined to nominate a candidate who
“We are living in a more dangerous, volatile world. Our adversaries openly challenge the values we cherish. Freedom, sovereignty, the rule of law – and of course the open international order upon which so much depends”, wrote Lord David Cameron recently in an open letter to The Telegraph (9 June
The proposal for a new model of national service fundamentally misunderstands the nature of modern warfare and the most pressing needs of our national defence. It conflates two distinct concepts: the requirements of our military and the benefits of community service, meeting the urgent needs of neither, it fails to
