Keir starmer

“Better late than never.” That’s how Reform party leader Nigel Farage has described Donald Trump’s sudden and dramatic repudiation of the United Kingdom’s Chagos handover. “This should be enough to sink just about the worst deal in history.” Early this morning, Trump used his Truth Social account to lay into “our ‘brilliant’ NATO ally, the United Kingdom, over Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s decision to “give away the Island of Diego Garcia, the site of a vital military base, and to do so FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER.” But what’s striking about Trump’s sudden focus on the future of Diego Garcia is that he’s decided to do it now – amid the

When John Swinney, the Scottish National Party leader, and former ambassador Peter Mandelson visited Donald Trump in the Oval Office a few months ago, the President showed them three different models for his planned renovation of the East Wing of the White House, which he has demolished to build a new ballroom. “If you’re going to do it,” Scotland’s First Minister suggested, “you might as well go big.” This Wednesday marked one year since Trump’s election victory, and going big captures the essence of his second term – bold and controversial moves, which have impressed even British politicians who thought him reckless in his first term. When Trump visited Chequers,

‘He was loved and admired by ALL, especially me, and now, he is no longer with us’

Britain’s global reputation has taken a knock in recent years – especially in the United States. This is unlikely to help things

British officialdom’s zeal for online regulation is setting it on a collision course with a resurgent and energetic US free-speech lobby

His views are fast becoming the consensus, but people still find obscure reasons to oppose the man himself

Unassuming ex-bureaucrats are being parachuted in to do… what?

POTUS on his second term, Nixon, Ukraine — and the tush push