Keir Starmer reveals he speaks with former US president Barack Obama ‘frequently’
The Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said he speaks to former US president Barack Obama “frequently” as he continues his diplomatic blitz. Ahead of his meeting with French president Emmanuel Macron, expected to take place on Tuesday, Starmer met with centre-left world leaders for a conference in Montreal, Canada, over the weekend. It was […]
Week-in-Review: Johnson and Truss fuel comeback rumours as they fly visions to the US
Mr Johnson went to Washington this week to press Republican lawmakers on the need to sustain aid to Ukraine as Russia’s assault rolls on. The former prime minister, who was born in the States and could technically run for the presidency, sashayed into the offices of high-profile Congressional Republicans to lobby on behalf of the […]
US rejects claims it will send fighter jets to Poland as UK ups weapons shipments
The Pentagon has rejected Poland’s claims it would send a fleet of fighter jets to Ukraine. Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby shot down Poland’s claims it planned to send 28 jets to an American airbase in Germany — where they would henceforth be sent to Ukraine. “We will continue to consult with Poland and our other […]
Sanctions ‘a demonstration of the complete impotence’ of the West, says Moscow
Western sanctions on Russia exhibit the “complete impotence” of the foreign policy of the West, a Russian official declared in a speech broadcasted on Russian television. Following the announcements of renewed sanctions from the US, UK and EU against Russian president Vladimir Putin and foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova argued: “Neither […]
Is this going to hurt? How sanctions on Russia could prove a mixed bag
On Monday evening Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered tanks across the border into the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of eastern Ukraine where Russian proxies have been active since 2014. It came after that afternoon’s official Russian recognition of the provinces as independent from Ukraine, following a State Duma vote. As dawn broke on Thursday, Putin […]
Defence Minister: We need the US ‘more than ever’
As concerns of a Russian invasion of Ukraine increase, the Defence Minister, Ben Wallace, faced questions in the House of Commons. The shadow defence minister, John Healey said that Labour “welcomed” the doubling of UK troops in Estonia, but raised concerns that this was simply a case of “rotation” rather than “reinforcement”. Wallace admitted that […]
Russia could invade Ukraine ‘at no notice’ as all UK troops to withdraw
UK defence minister James Heappey has said there will be no British troops in Ukraine in the case of an invasion, adding that Russia could invade “at no notice”. British personnel have been in Ukraine on a training mission codenamed Operation Orbital over the past decade, whereas others have been deployed there recently to train […]
UK gun laws: the public’s view
The UK has some of the strictest gun laws in the world, with those laws recently being tightened further following the shooting in Plymouth during the summer when five people were killed. This contrasts strongly with the United States where the second amendment grants people the right to bear arms, and where 80% of people […]
Johnson outlines Aukus military pact
Boris Johnson has outlined Britain’s new military pact with the United States and Australia.
9/11, twenty years on
With Afghanistan at a crossroads once again, other societies are mindful of their own nations’ simmering divisions.
