The EU’s answer to Donald Trump is Viktor Orbán, the prime minister of Hungary. He is gearing up for a head-on confrontation with the EU.
Groans of dismay can already be heard from Scotland to Strasbourg as the prospect of a second Trump presidency looms. So, what might Trump 2 look like for the UK, EU and the rest of the world?
The innocent animal victims of Houthi Red Sea attacks Attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea, by Iran-backed Houthi rebels, have had a direct impact on live sheep and cattle exports, creating an animal welfare crisis. A ship carrying around 14,000 sheep and 2,000 cattle was marooned off the Australian coast in sweltering heat after it was forced to abandon its trip through the Red Sea because of the danger of drone or missile strikes.
Fighting back tears at the UK Covid Inquiry today, an emotional Nicola Sturgeon said she had felt “overwhelmed by the scale” of what she had to deal with in the pandemic.
Elections are due not only in the UK, but across the whole of the EU and in major nations like Russia, India, Bangladesh, Mexico, Taiwan and Indonesia.
As we embrace 2024, many people may look back over the past two decades at calamity after calamity and wonder when the next crisis will occur.
For the second time since he became president of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi has been forced to cancel a visit to Europe due to widespread protests and a demand for his arrest under the law of universal jurisdiction.
The sophistication of the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel using motorised paragliders, drones, and a combined air, sea and land invasion by heavily armed fighters, all under a coordinated barrage involving 5,000 missiles, bears the well-defined fingerprints of the Iranian regime.
Sir Keir Starmer’s recent visit to Paris for talks with President Emmanuel Macron, has ignited a new dispute over the UK’s future relationship with the EU.
Humza Yousaf’s attempts to paint himself as a proponent of economic growth and a champion of business are as about as convincing as Donald Trump’s claim to have won the 2020 US presidential election.
