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Eliot WilsonThe Telegraph |
The Royal Navy has not had a good few weeks in reputational terms. It was nothing short of humiliating that it took three weeks to get the destroyer...
Theodore Roosevelt, the blur of energy who occupied the White House for the first years of the 20th century, famously advised statesmen: ‘Speak...
With Donald Trump’s threat that ‘a whole civilization will die… never to be brought back again’ looming on Tuesday night, a temporary two-week...
Tuesday 07 April 2026 5:55 am | Updated: Monday 06 April 2026 11:10 am On This Day in 1980: America severs...
Monday 06 April 2026 5:54 am | Updated: Friday 03 April 2026 10:14 am Keir Starmer believes undoing Brexit will...
Around dawn on Friday, a McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle from the US Air Force’s 494th Fighter Squadron was shot down over south-western Iran....
Donald Trump has never liked the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato). Disagreements have been managed before and problems deferred, but his...
There are those who will claim that Sir Keir Starmer has handled the UK’s response to America’s war with Iran skilfully and diplomatically. That...
It has not required advanced training in detecting nuance or reading between the lines in recent days to understand that Donald Trump is annoyed. A...
Tuesday 17 March 2026 4:40 pm | Updated: Tuesday 17 March 2026 4:42 pm Britain’s problem isn’t too few...
As soon as Operation Epic Fury, America’s latest campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran, got underway on the last day of February, political,...
As soon as Operation Epic Fury, America’s latest campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran, got underway on the last day of February, political,...
It was good news, albeit good news of the your-house-hasn’t-burned-down variety. Last week, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced that Leonardo UK...
Monday 09 March 2026 11:10 am Whether Trump is right or wrong, peace with Iran was never on the table ...
Monday 09 March 2026 5:11 am | Updated: Thursday 05 March 2026 2:32 pm On This Day: Adam Smith publishes The...
With Operation Epic Fury in its sixth day, it is hard to tell how long the current United States military campaign against Iran will last. It may not...
With Operation Epic Fury in its sixth day, it is hard to tell how long the current United States military campaign against Iran will last. It may not...
Being one of America’s closest allies – which Britain remains – is like having a very rich friend. You are invited to meetings and parties to...
Britain’s armed forces lack the mass, readiness and resilience needed to produce a credible deterrent in an era of intensifying threats. The danger...
Last week could have been worse for Sir Keir Starmer, but only because he remains Prime Minister – for the time being. After the tawdry...
Monday 16 February 2026 10:33 am Nigel Farage’s war on working from home is vibes-based politics ...
Micheál Martin, now in his second stint as Ireland’s Taoiseach, is by our standards a political veteran, having led Fianna Fáil for the past 15...
A bomb-damaged building at Canary Wharf in London's Docklands after the explosion of an IRA bomb that signalled the end of the ceasefire, 15th...
Mandelson’s fall is now another stick with which to beat a vulnerable and useless Prime Minister, writes Eliot Wilson There will be no sixth act....
SHANGHAI, CHINA - JANUARY 30: UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer visits Yuyuan Garden on January 30, 2026 in Shanghai, China. Keir Starmer undertakes a...
UNSPECIFIED LOCATION - NOVEMBER 11: (FILE PHOTO) Space Shuttle Challenger crew members gather for an official portrait November 11, 1985 in an...
Nigel Farage announced Reform's plans for new taxes on banks at Davos Nigel Farage’s promise to tax banks more shows his Trumpian revenge coming...
The Royal Exchange was opened by Elizabeth I 455 years ago on this day. Eliot Wilson traces the origins of its success Tudor England saw massive...
Keir Starmer's leadership troubles are keeping investors on edge. With his latest U-turn, Keir Starmer has taken a controversial policy which...
(Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images) Keir Starmer is set to travel to China and has appealed for business leaders to accompany him. You don’t do...
A cartoon in response to the 'Window tax' in 1696 On this day, 9 January 1799, Britain introduced its first ‘temporary’ income tax. Workers...
Civil service headcount has reached a 20-year high, bigger than it was during Brexit or Covid. Yet more proof that this Prime Minister’s only belief...
Image generated by Chat GPT At the beginning of 2025 I gave caution the slip and made five predictions for the year in politics. One was wrong: I...
BOURNEMOUTH, UNITED KINGDOM - SEPTEMBER 26: Education, Children, Schools and Families Secretary Ed Balls (L) talks with Prime Minister Gordon Brown at...
27th December 1950: The Coronation Throne in Westminster Abbey after the theft of the Stone of Destiny, or Stone of Scone. The initials JFS newly...
In 1783, the King needed a fifth Prime Minister in two years. Despite others’ doubts, he turned to 24-year-old William Pitt, on this day, to turn...
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