Whoever wins the election, the terms of national discussion will still be set by what people euphemistically call The Establishment – so it’s a good idea to have a sense of who really belongs to it and what they believe
One of the only good things, perhaps the only good thing, that came out of Andrew Mitchell’s tenure as Britain’s aid minister was the establishment of a body called the Independent Commission for Aid Impact or ICAI. Its task is
The tremendous public response to the extraordinary Poppy Installation at the Tower of London seems to have taken much of the political class and the cultural elite by surprise (the bafflement at the BBC is almost palpable). Like the growing
Over the last week BBC news bulletins have, inevitably, led with the Gaza war. This might seem like an obvious, rational choice, although of course it was also the worst week of the last three years in the Syrian war,
One of the less attractive characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon powers is their post-war habit of betraying third world allies, whether they are Vietnamese Montagnards, Afghan interpreters or belong to one of several less well-known minorities that have paid a grim
There has been a lot of handwringing in the UK media about what might happen if some of the “British” jihadists come home from Syria and Iraq with deadly new skills and an even greater appetite for killing infidels. It
