The man British National Security Adviser Jonathan Powell invited to his wedding.

Obviously we should not cede the Chagos Islands. At the same time, we should sue Mauritius for the return of the sum - around £100 million at today's prices - that it pocketed in 1965 in return for promising to drop all claims to the archipelago in perpetuity.

You are a young person interested in politics. You look at all the local parties and out of all of them pick *Sinn Fein*. You get elected and then say this live with a camera running. After the IRA murdered 1,800 people and let off the vast majority of the 16,000 bombs during

Military historian here: this is a widespread but erroneous assumption, propagated by people who don’t understand war. Wars are won by winning them, in most cases by bringing about the military defeat of the enemy. And, by the way, if you think that Iran was going to give up

I’m old enough to remember when the BBC wouldn’t report the number of Iranians slaughtered by the regime because they “couldn’t independently verify it”.

With the all important by-election in Gorton & Denton, the Greens have pulled out all the stops. From recreating what they think a working class person's living room looks like, to smear campaigns in Urdu, it's a wonder Hannah Spencer even has time for a brew

I don’t know what Labour is proposing on Gibraltar. But I do know this. While Starmer is here, every shakedown artist is chancing his arm. Slavery reparations, Chagos Islands, Irish border, museum artefacts, fishing grounds - it’s open season on Britain.

It's over. We won. The @nytimes —the ideological compass and party organ of the western liberal world—is now ringing the bell for the very movement it once championed. The American Medical Association is backpedaling. A jury just awarded $2 million to a survivor of this

The psychological energy required to convert a pitiless murderer of civillians into a bastion of human rights is the only impressive thing about this odious drivel. The 'lives well lived' were of those who refused to murder their neighbours in the name of a sectarian fantasy.

I was confidently told this wouldn’t happen

Marco Rubio's Munich Speech was word perfect. The Americans couldn't be clearer: they love Europe and Britain, they see themselves as the keepers of the flame of Western civilisation and they want us to pull our weight. I just hope our leaders listen.

“We never do us vs them. That’s why us good, them bad.”

He was DEFEATED ELEVEN TIMES. Attacked. Threatened with DEATH. Nearly blind. Addicted to opium just to function. They told him to stop. He spent forty-six years refusing. His name was William Wilberforce. Born in Hull, 1759. He could have lived a comfortable life. Wealthy

Today, my father was convicted simply for being my father. This is how the Hong Kong government retaliates against me and my pro-democracy advocacy. This is hostage taking. This is transnational repression.

Chagos simply cannot go ahead now.

Ancestral background of presidents of the United States

This is one of the dumbest geostrategic mistakes that the UK could possibly make. It will give the Chinese Communist Party a foothold in a critical region­ and compromise the ability of the US, UK and Nato forces overall to project power. https://t.co/IwSbz1yyEp

The striking thing about Starmer’s Chagos policy is how obsessive he is. He has sped past every off-ramp: Mauritius raising the price; changes of government in both the US and Mauritius; the formation of a Chagossian Government-in-Exile; defeat in the House of Lords; a UN ruling

A striking quotation from Philippe Sands, cheerleader for the Chagos deal, Guardian, 2017, found by @michaelgove https://t.co/Rty0b5Y8m6

Important to be clear about this (and I take no pleasure in emphasising the UK’s failings on the international stage): 1. Starmer made major concessions to get this visit. Mega-embassy etc 2. He returns *without a single signed deal*. Not one. Extraordinary. Even Carney came