Things can’t only get better It wasn’t always like this. The last Labour prime minister to win big before Starmer was Tony Blair. When he came to power in 1997, the U.K. had a bigger economy than China’s, was a leading member of the growing European Union trade bloc, and was approaching peak oil and gas production in the North Sea. Blair led … Read more
GAZA IS IN the grip of an incipient famine, amid a futile war that neither Hamas nor Israel appears ready to end. In an attempt to highlight the suffering of the Palestinians, stop the fighting and save the idea of two countries for two peoples, Britain and France have in recent days both taken decisive … Read more
PARIS (Reuters) – France and Britain are proposing a partial one-month truce between Russia and Ukraine that would not cover ground fighting, French President Emmanuel Macron told the daily newspaper Le Figaro on Sunday. However, Macron said the truce would cover air, sea and energy infrastructure attacks. “In the event of a ceasefire, it would … Read more
As Britain’s Labour Party government prepares to deliver its first budget this week, the message to Britons for the past few months has been a dispiriting warning that they may not like what they hear. The budget, which will be announced in Parliament on Wednesday, will be “painful,” Prime Minister Keir Starmer said. The Treasury, … Read more