Sometimes one unintentionally hits a nerve. So it was this week when scrolling through my Twitter timeline I saw a map posted by a US academ...

The threat from Brussels was as crude as one from any third-rate mafia hoodlum - 'Give us all your fish or we'll destroy the City...

Well, we didn't expect that to happen so quickly. Let's just take a quick recap of the shifts in defence and security policy over ...

Way back in February, lost in the panic of the emerging threat from the Wuhan virus, the PM issued a written statement to Parliament settin...

Back in Suffolk in the 90s I used to rough shoot with a bloke who'd bagged several empty Halls to market and sell; this was before City,...

There's a magnificent lightning storm outside and thunder is roiling in the valley, I have a packed and frantic day ahead anyway and las...

No, no not the nation. The Blairite life-peer who has headed the Commonwealth secretariat for the last four years, and whose term is now com...

Funny old thing, history. Too often it defies the desires of the simple-minded for it to be neat and to conform with stereotypes. We have s...

Policing a demonstration in modern times needs several things. It needs sections of coppers trained to work together, it needs a stock of f...

From Wednesday 6th May I have no confidence at all that the tracing app being developed by Whitehall will work. If it's up to the aby...

I must say it cheered my heart to have the old Boris back yesterday. The effects of Covid are debilitating, enervating and sap bounce. His ...

Remainer minds are remarkably resilient, and none more so than that of Jeremy Warner in the 'graph. The poor chap can simply not concei...

Investors may not have to write off the car makers and lease networks quite yet. As the dark lid of lockdown lifts, for many people their ca...

1911 was a key year for Standard Oil. It was the year the US courts decided that the company had been misusing its size and market strength ...

I watched closely yesterday the live footage transmitted from the London protests on both You Tube and Periscope, and as I know the areas of...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) was founded with the best of intentions, but like the UN has been turned into an instrument funded b...

Looking back at the blog posts here in the week or so before the UK lockdown on 24th March, it is clear we all knew the likely risk of the W...

The operation of Liquidated Damages is one of the first lessons anyone learns in Construction Contracts 101. The contract provision cannot o...

The scenes of mob rule in our cities will I fear trickle on until George Floyd's funeral on Tuesday. I will refrain from comment today ...

Just a footnote on masks. New requirements to wear them on public transport and in other social situations in which it is not possible to ma...