

Braced for Action?
Or inaction? Take your pick, and don’t be taken in by anyone doing the knowing tap in the side of the nose thing and claiming to have the answer. In a few days from now the politicos and the hacks will have to cede all to the voters in the Scottish and Welsh and local elections. And there’s no guarantee of a rational response when the numbers divvy out. No question, the figures look set to be terrifying for Labour. Polls are consistently pointing to them losing four-fifths of
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Will He Won't He?
(Read on, or view here: https://youtu.be/Qe2EZ5oKrlU) The mood music is cacophonous. With Labour facing disaster at the polls in under a fortnight and the scandal over Peter Mandelson’s appointment as US ambassador refusing to go away, the Prime Minister’s running out of friends. A move to chuck him out would be a bloody affair though. But, as our Political Correspondent Peter Spencer reports, there is one other remote but not implausible possibility. Sir Keir Starmer’s thoug
Apr 265 min read


A Sea of Troubles
(Read on, or view here: https://youtu.be/Jkk33_sbd2M ) You really couldn’t make it up. With the Prime Minister facing a maybe tipping point with catastrophic local election results in less than three weeks, another one’s just rocked up in the shape of the Peter Mandelson scandal. All this just as he’s trying to define himself as guardian of the nation’s security, and a world leader trying to clear up the mess created by the US President. There’s no question Sir Keir Starmer i
Apr 195 min read


Hanging By A Thread
(Read on, or view here: https://youtu.be/TnUdKAIavws ) Across the globe fingers are crossed in hope, and hands are clasped in prayer, that the latest talks will finally bring an end to the nightmare that Donald Trump has inflicted on us. There’s no knowing whether the desperately shaky ceasefire in at least parts of the conflict can be made to stick. But even on the best case scenario we Brits will pay a heavy price. It’s impossible to understate the enormity of it all. On t
Apr 125 min read