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

The dangerous verbal diarrhoea of this ideologue. Wars aren’t pleasant, but sometimes they are necessary. It’s (sometimes) the only way to defeat the sort of fascism you apparently espouse. Destroying the millenarian fantasists in Iran will make the world more rather than

I agree. This isn't like being invited to join in the war in Vietnam. Iran has shown how naive Keir Starmer truly is spectator.com/article/iran-h…

Strategy is very simple. It’s the operational delivery of strategy that gets complicated, but at its heart strategy isn’t complicated. Westminster knows full well that we’ve been at war with Iran for a long time, though it continues to delude itself about the scale and nature

We live in a post truth world. During my first tour of West Belfast this man was known to us as a member of the IRA’s B2 gun team. We had his mugshot on our watch lists. spectator.com/article/will-g…

A 19-year-old Royal Holloway student — Brodie Mitchell — was suspended after a Freshers’ Fair exchange with an anti-Zionist activist who called him a “wannabe Jew”.   He responded by asking why she was wearing a “tea towel” — referring to the keffiyeh-style head-dress she was

Why does the Royal British Legion have to pay, but when it comes to hate marches the taxpayer picks up the tab? Remembrance parades commemorating those who sacrificed their lives for this country are an important part of British life 🧵

Fuel Britannia! With the Conservative plan to drill in the North Sea and cut your energy bills 🇬🇧

‘… internationally, objective truth is at present having a particularly rocky time. In the multiple fragmented perspectives thrown up by online media, there’s increasingly only “your truth” and “my truth” rather than “the truth”. For many people, facts are a shrinking source of

Keir Starmer says he "beat himself up" for appointing Peter Mandelson. He adds that he made a mistake. Boris made a mistake by holding a piece of cake in Tupperware, in his workplace on his birthday but you still called for him to resign. You’re finished. Just go.

Keir Starmer can't - or won't - tell us if he spoke to Peter Mandelson before appointing him as ambassador. The strange absence of Starmer's opinion in the Mandelson files. Now the curious case of McSweeney's 'stolen' phone. There's something fishy going on.

Morgan McSweeney’s government phone “stolen” only days before he was forced to release it and its contents? Come off it. The whole thing stinks to high heaven. What are the Government trying to hide? The public aren’t fools. Publish everything. Now.

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Despite assurances that the Palestinian Authority would reform its education system, 14-year-olds in the West Bank are still learning Arabic language in the context of killing Jews. Evidence in 🧵

Hey Keir Starmer Remember this Prime Minister? The SDR was published in June 2025. Can we have an update please? I'm particularly keen to understand just how 'security and defence' [has been placed] front and centre - to make it the fundamental organising principle of

I followed SDR for a year; wrote papers for Think Tanks on it. I think this is devastating. You think it’s devastating. But the Prime Minister doesn’t… Keir Starmer Lucy Fisher

At a Foreign Affairs Committee session in November 2025, I directly asked Sir Oliver Robbins whether the FCDO had a different view of who should be recommended for the posting of US Ambassador. His response? "It was clear that the Prime Minister wanted to make this appointment himself."

I'm sorry WHHHAATTT??? THIS IS THE GUY WHO STARMER JUST FIRED because he wasn't told that Mandelson had failed vetting. Someone. Is. Lying. Who? And why?? Oh dear.....

Sadiq Khan. If you are so angry about the attacks in Golders Green then why don’t you try and stop the vile ghastly hate marches. Instead of words we want action! Us non Jews should be thoroughly ashamed of the blatant antisemitism we see in our country. Unforgivable

In the midst of all the news today, and with Parliament prorogued, many people may not have noticed that this was the final time the hereditary peers sat in Parliament before being forced out by Labour. I want to pay an extra special tribute to them. Combined they had 1784