In the wake of the landmark Brexit referendum in 2016, the UK government launched the opaque ‘Global Britain Fund’. Questions around the size of its budget, objectives, which projects it bankrolls and where, and other key questions have remained unanswered since. It was only two years later that then-Foreign Office …
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In 2019, the UK’s Tory government described childhood obesity as “one of the biggest health challenges this country faces.” Months later the jumbo-sized problem faded into insignificance as Britons were forced to isolate themselves in their own homes as an invisible enemy, Covid-19, pushed the UK’s healthcare infrastructure to the …
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This was the dynamic on show on Wednesday in the Black Sea. A British warship, the HMS Defender, transited through what Russia says are its territorial waters, near Crimea, sailing within 12 nautical miles of the peninsula’s coast. This provoked a tough response from the Russian military. According to the …
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So the deal has been agreed. This was always going to happen; as I pointed out a couple of weeks ago, Boris Johnson was clearly bluffing about his threats towards a no-deal and inevitably, there would be an agreement. Not surprisingly, he and his government have not shied away from a …
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In certain circumstances, you trust others blindly. On a plane, you don’t ask the pilot to prove they’re capable of navigating the skies, you take a leap of faith. It’s the same when you’re wheeled into hospital and a surgeon stands over you, wielding a scalpel. The British public – …
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