If Sunak and Truss are remotely serious about either improving Britain’s long-term growth rate or competing with China, they must make our country a science superpower.
Should the current Anyone-but-Netanyahu ensemble collapse under the weight of its diversity, he stands a good chance of returning.
It at least gives hope that, after the chaos and corruption of the last decade, some limited change and political accountability might at last be possible.
The Middle East had been entering a period of relative calm, but Putin’s aggression in Europe puts it at risk.
He bet that it would seek to become a normal country and the region would wane in strategic importance. He was wrong.
This list of allies and partners includes Australia, Israel, South Korea, Japan, Oman, Qatar and Singapore.
NATO must stand united against Russia’s desire to restore Soviet hegemony.
He said that we cannot vaccinate the population every six months. Ostensibly this sounded like bad news, but his message was, overall, a positive one.
We can still be another Israel or South Korea, if we decide a strategy and stick to it.
To me, he was the original blue-collar Conservative, embodying the values of an Essex man – of decency and hard work.
The Levelling Up Secretary declared that the opposition “say they’ve embraced fiscal rigour but voted for hundreds of billions of new spending.”
Anti-corruption and cementing new treaties should take precedence over softer fashionable favourites.
Despite being the world leader in vaccinations, Israel has seen immunity wear off. The UK government is taking note.
Doing so won’t get us to the promised land of herd immunity, and may well compromise their immuno-response systems.
Traditional secular nationalist-driven Palestinian terrorism has been taking on a more religiously motivated dimension in recent years.