The Gleneagles Summit 2005, Eriko Sugita / Reuters 20 years ago, the words of Nelson Mandela rang out in Trafalgar Square. He called on the world to Make Poverty History stating that ‘as long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest’.
The Netanyahu government has been a disaster – for Israel and its security, for the Palestinians, and for the prospects of a wider regional peace. It is time for it to go and for Israel to have the new leadership its people want and deserve. The 7 October atrocities –
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
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
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,
Trump’s effort to end the Ukraine conflict was signalled well in advance of his election. That’s why discussion between European governments about supporting a potential halt to the fighting should have started at least 12 months ago. It will probably not be the permanent settlement that Putin is demanding because
Keir Starmer’s commitment to send British troops to Ukraine is possibly the most consequential decision he has made as Prime Minister so far. Labour List niggled that it had won a mixed reception at this weeks meeting of European leaders in Paris. With impending elections for the German Bundestag and
If this government wants us to know one thing about its objectives at the moment, it is that economic growth is their priority. From infrastructure investment, to planning reform and even pensions, growth is the thread running through all recent government announcements. Whether or not you agree with every decision,
Our democracy, like those across the world, is in danger. Citizens here are losing faith in democracy as they cannot earn enough to live, and we are also threatened by Putin’s aggression in Europe. Dealing with both is the only way to save democracy. We can only protect democracy by
