During my time as a politician, I had an uncomfortable relationship with the National Health Service. In 2010, I wrote that the NHS was “costly, inefficient and stuffed with bureaucrats.” Moreover, the following year, I went on to describe the UK health system as a “monolithic hangover from days gone …
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On Wednesday the British parliament reconvened in an emergency session to allow MPs to vent their spleen over the situation in Afghanistan. It was a scene of self-righteous and delusional posturing and indignation over why the UK had allowed the collapse of the Kabul government and had been too subservient …
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A few weeks is clearly a long time in politics. So too, it seems, is a couple of days. For on Thursday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov declared that a summit between Biden and Putin would not go ahead in the near future. That does not mean that Moscow has definitively …
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Laughing is not bad. At the next Congress of the party “United Russia” Russian President Vladimir Putin scored a new gem, comparing Russia with my grandmother Confirming the video posted on YouTube. “Russia is a country with a millennial history. But we should not treat her like a beloved grandmother, …
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