British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will meet his top ministers on Tuesday for talks at which he may be forced to set out a timetable for his departure after one of the governing Labour Party's worst...
Calls mounted late Monday for Britain's embattled Prime Minister Keir Starmer to quit, despite his pledges to prove his doubters wrong after his ruling Labour party was crushed in local and regional elections . More than 70 of...
The UK's local elections in May have offered a telling window into where British politics is heading. Arguably, they signal one of the most profound challenges to the post-World War II two-party system in modern Britain, as mainstream support...
Embattled British Prime Minister Keir Starmer came out fighting Monday, vowing to prove his "doubters" wrong as he sought to quell a growing threat to his leadership following disastrous election results. Starmer pledged his ruling Labour party would be...
UK leader Keir Starmer said Friday he took responsibility for "very tough" local election results that saw the hard-right make big gains, but vowed to carry on as prime minister. "I'm not going to walk away and plunge the country into...
The entire visit should be seen as a charm offensive to win Trump over to what appears to be the most important thing for the European elites: Ukraine Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us:...
Britons voted Thursday in local elections set to heap more pressure on beleaguered Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer and energise the rise of hard-right and left-wing populists. The ballot across Scotland, England and Wales is Starmer's biggest electoral test...
Unfortunately, understanding how the world works now, making sensible suggestions and carrying them out require exactly those skills and competencies which western governments and western societies have sent the last generation or more carefully destroying. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack...
Political insurgents Reform UK are set to make huge gains in British local elections on Thursday, as the far-right, anti-immigrant party draws increasing support from voters. "The UK has been flooded with illegal immigrants that shouldn't be here. They're...
UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves has called the bosses of the country's five biggest retail banks for talks, in a sign of growing concern about the economic consequences of the war on Iran . Reeves will...
Britain's government is set to announce legislation next month to move the country closer to the European Union , as the Iran war sours the UK's so-called special relationship with the United States. President Donald Trump's unpredictability and stream of...
As the entire international economic, political and military balance is upended, and governments are going to find themselves in a frightening new world, unlike anything they have ever known, and where neither Powerpoint nor mythical and symbolic politics can help...
Tens of thousands of people marched through central London Saturday to protest against the far right , weeks ahead of local elections and six months after Britain saw one of its largest far-right demonstrations. Organised by hundreds of...
The following story is co-published with Luke Savage’s Substack . On a recent episode of the London Review of Books’ podcast On Politics, James Butler hosted a conversation about the current state of Britain’s Labour Party with Sienna Rodgers (deputy editor...
The latest war-driven global price panic is not an aberration but a constant state of being in the contemporary global economic. It is all so unstable that unless we take a new course, it will fall down sooner or later. Robin...
The UK is in a doom loop and the Labour government has got no idea how to escape it. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger . Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog...
Britain's populist Reform UK party unveiled "radical" plans on Monday to stop what it called an immigration "invasion", promising to create an agency to deport thousands of illegal migrants and to leave human rights treaties if it wins...
By Fraser MYERS Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Britain’s right-wing vanguard has an unlikely base in the home counties. If Reform UK can be said to have a spiritual home, then Essex,...
Pro-Palestine activism received a respite from longstanding official and unofficial repression in Britain this week with a legal order to overturn a government ban on Palestine Action, an activist organization that was banned in the summer of 2025. The High...
What is currently occurring in the UK is happening in most Western nations. Here a good analysis of what has gone wrong and what now needs to be done. Richard Murphy is an economic justice campaigner. Professor of Accounting at Sheffield...
What Aurelien does not appear to understand is that it was the union of workers and middle class that enabled progressive politics. The PMC alone is the Green Party, which eventually becomes far-right. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to...
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio sought to reassure a nervous Europe on Saturday, saying Washington wanted to recharge the transatlantic alliance so a strong Europe could help the United States on its mission of global...
How Europe Plans to Strengthen Its Security with Partners beyond the United States Europe must take more responsibility for its defence, if necessary without the United States, given Washington’s volatility. In March 2025, the European Union (EU) launched a series of...
The Central Bank of Ireland is complicit in Israel’s genocide and regime of apartheid by facilitating the sale of Israeli war bonds throughout the European Union. Its role in the funding of the most unspeakable crimes must end immediately. For...
Islam Times - The British Labor Party scored over the past week a major victory over the Conservative Party. It gained two-thirds of the British House of Commons while the number of seats of the Conservative Party declined to less...
Britain’s trade exchanges with Iran has more than tripled since the country left the European Union, a move known as Brexit, as the value of annual trade between the two countries reached 696 million pounds in 2022, according to figures...
Do we really need a new book such as "Johnson at 10" by Anthony Seldon and Raymond Newell to know that Boris Johnson did not have a plan for Brexit? Aren't all the disastrous aftermath consequences of Brexit enough to tell...
The British government has been widely reported over its controversial asylum policies to tackle the mounting number of English Channel crossings by migrants in boats, with some accusing it of "scapegoating" migrants for the country's "broken immigration policy". The increasing...
The number of migrants arriving in Britain in small boats hit a record for a single day yesterday, as the rise in dangerous journeys across the English Channel continues despite UK government plans to deport those arriving illegally to Rwanda, Reuters reports....
Prince William, second in line to the British throne, on Thursday, visited the United Arab Emirates at a time when the former British protectorate has faced an unprecedented, though mostly foiled, string of missile and drone attacks, Reuters reports. Kensington...
For the EU, gaining greater autonomy in chipmaking is now a key component of its digital strategy, to fight the semiconductor shortage blooming in 2021 The EU worries how its market share across the entire chip value chain has shrunk The law...
Coming regulations will differ from Europe’s GDPR The government will pursue data partnerships with countries including Australia, South Korea andUS as part of a post-Brexit data regime That may lead to substantial changes to the UK’s data protection law Why the change of...
The ending of the common agricultural policy and the increased awareness of the need to transform the UK's agricultural system to combat climate breakdown represents a window of opportunity. It could be the moment when this and future governments begin...
Shutterstock The nightmare is over. The vanquished beast has crawled back to Mar-a-Lago to lick his wounds. The heroes are hard at work repairing the damage. As America returns to the international stage, the world heaves a collective sigh of relief. That,...
A Brexit deal was finally agreed, but how data will be transferred across the channel has yet to be agreed The UK is no longer within the realm of GDPR, the clock is now ticking on the UK becoming a...
On the eve of the new year, British lawmakers finally agreed on a Brexit deal. Britain’s House of Commons voted resoundingly on Wednesday to approve a trade deal with the European Union , paving the way for an orderly...
The new UK-Turkey trade deal, which will extend existing trading arrangements, is set to be signed on Tuesday. The UK said it will sign a free trade deal with Ankara this week after Brexit, just days after...
The 11th hour accord will go into effect on January 1. Britain and the European Union struck a post- Brexit trade deal on Thursday that they hope will cushion the economic blow of the UK's imminent...
A year ago this would have been unthinkable. Now it has become par for the course. Today, around 34m people in England are living under Tier 3 restrictions. It is quite something that, despite securing prior votes on the onslaught of...
The US president invited the Brexit Party founder on to the stage at a campaign rally in Arizona despite Covid-19 restrictions against the entry of British nationals. President Donald Trump enlisted the aid of a right-wing populist British...
After three and a half years of acrimony, Brexit has become a reality. One very small but extremely powerful grouping within British society is likely to be delighted that the independence they have long desired has finally been achieved; alongside...
Boris Johnson , like Trump, is a phony populist. His political stepping stone to the position of PM was Brexit. He is a British blue blood raised au pair in the bucolic English countryside. Johnson identifies as a “conservative” but...
The defense industry cooperation between Turkey and the United Kingdom will continue unaffected from Brexit, says businessman Osman Okyay, the head of Turkey-UK Business Council, adding that cooperation in the field can grow as the U.K. stand very interested to...
If there is one issue that denotes the terminal decline of Labour as a force for change – desperately needed social, economic and environmental change – it is not Brexit. It is the constant furor over an “antisemitism crisis” supposedly...
In his 1787 farewell speech, George Washington warned, “… foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.” Washington’s compatriots were more specific. Later in the same year, John Adams wrote a letter to Thomas Jefferson sharing...
Since Boris Johnson ’s election in December with an 80-seat majority, the government is in full swing to radically change Britain. Leaving aside Brexit, which will do just that, the government is now attacking the very institutions that uphold...
Shutterstock The victory by Ireland’s left-wing Sinn Fein Party in the Republic’s recent election has not only overturned some 90 years of domination by the island’s two center-right parties — it suddenly puts the issue of Irish reunification...
If there is one issue that denotes the terminal decline of Labour as a force for change – desperately needed social, economic and environmental change – it is not Brexit. It is the constant furore over an “antisemitism crisis” supposedly...
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