Today’s post is primarily an analysis of the Spring Statement: the Chancellor’s indication of how very little he is intending

What is it important to know today? Today I have less news for you on the fighting front, and more about

In the midst of all the problems with petrol at the pumps – caused by a Remain-leaning BP executive or

What’s happening this week in Parliament? What fresh horrors are about to be unleashed on us? What liberties are being

(Also NATO meets today to consider China – but, apparently, still wants to avoid a Cold War: more soon.) So the

It’s often said, and with some truth, that people who have serial, recurring, seriously dysfunctional and ultimately unsuccessful relationships –

Northern Ireland: Nothing Is Working. Today David Frost wrote this for the Financial Times. Remember when you read it that HE

In the midst of the fuss (insufficiently focused fuss) about what Johnson did and didn’t do, and what Cummings did

Here's the long story, cut short: Johnson may have argued for herd immunity, as Cummings claims. But Cummings, before his

What is democracy? Did we ever possess it? Do we now? Will we in the future? Democracy was once defined as