Herr Tirana, one of the EU's several Presidents, confirmed today that "after a little cellar work and a touch of bastinado" al...

A bit of a fuss in the papers at news that Nick Serota's retirement gift from his colleagues was to be a boat. It's pretty certain ...

AEP in the Telegraph this morning says it all:- (Berlin) demanded that Britain desist from tax dumping and financial deregulation that w...

Turkey has launched a new offensive against the Kurds. They now face attacks from Turkey to the north and west, and from ISIS to the south a...

As will be apparent, France's electoral system is geared at preventing shock change and powerful leaders. Remember that the French bour...

There is an interview in the Indie this morning with lawyer David Edward in which he lambastes the 'invincible ignorance' of those ...

It is becoming transparently clear that Brexit is an economic battle between Britain and Germany. It is also becoming clear that EU membersh...

There had to be casualties of course. Few regret the abandonment of his political career by Osborne; the Commons will be infinitely improved...

Well, she's done it. And she's got the £ nudging €1.20, which is nice. And the global corporates are squeezing out a little high pre...

There will be many homes in Britain that still have the last edition of the Home Guide to Nuclear War, issued by the government as Protect a...

Tomorrow's referendum in Turkey on that country's version of Germany's 1933 Enabling Act is, by all accounts, on a knife-edge. I...

This won't be the headline in your MSM papers, which focus on a minor report footnote that a DOS attack may have slowed the website proc...

When I write 'peace in Syria' I don't of course mean the sort of peace that the West gifted to Iraq, or Afghanistan, or Libya, o...

With the PR-stunt bombardment of a vacant Syrian airbase over, US forces in the region can now re-target their cruise missiles and aircraft ...

I have no illusions about Bashir Assad's ruthlessness, and none about his commitment to regain control of Syria. His success in Aleppo, ...

NATO's anniversary today could not come at a more appropriate moment. NATO, and the Atlantic Alliance, has kept the peace in Europe sinc...

It's perhaps not strange that although times and events move relentlessly forward, human nature is far less liable to change. Time and e...

When I owned a British Registered Ship (Part 1 registration) the ship's passport or Certificate of British Registry was an impressive th...

One can usually tell when a journo has been royally fed the official line. Con Coughlin's MOD lunches are marked by subsequent pieces of...

An early post for Brexit Day as I've got a chocca full day's graft from first light tomorrow.  Of course, England has been here be...