The rapid fall of Afghanistan to Taleban control presents Britain and its Nato allies with two primary dilemmas — the first is immediately pressing, the second has longer-term implications.
The urgent...
Some sports stars dazzle on the pitch or earn headlines for their after-hours antics. Others lend their names to good causes. But it's unusual for a player in his early prime to take on a government a...
The painstakingly negotiated Northern Ireland Protocol was the linchpin of the Brexit deal signed by Britain and the European Union last year. So Tuesday’s statement from a British minister that his g...
In his absence, Boris Johnson’s British Government has mainly followed the lockdown strategy that was determined before the Prime Minister was infected with Covid-19.
Many are hoping that he will soo...
The Britain-European Union trade talks have not started officially, but both sides are testing out negotiating lines. Britain is already colouring some of them red, setting up a fight this year that w...
Is there anything short of a major external shock — or a polling meltdown — that could knock Boris Johnson’s Conservatives off course for a comfortable UK parliamentary majority next Thursday?
On the ...
Revelations about Boris Johnson’s personal life, when they periodically emerge, have tended mainly to serve as tabloid fodder for a few days and then flame out. Two recent allegations, however, could ...
Boris Johnson’s entire Brexit strategy has rested on the assumption that Britain’s unwritten constitution gives him the right to drive a cart and horses through parliamentary process and convention. Y...
If the gridlocked British Parliament had suddenly come to a united Brexit stance on Monday, it would probably have been dismissed as an April Fool’s gag anyway. Of course, no such thing happened.
Mond...
Here we go again: Britain’s Parliament is debating Brexit and Prime Minister Theresa May is playing for more time as various factions try to influence the endgame. Her goal is to deliver her divorce d...
