Last week we were hit by three named storms in a single week, but our seafront defences held firm. It was a useful reminder that Weston’s promenade isn’t just a great place to walk when the weather’s fine: it does important work keeping us all safe when the waves are…
This article was written by John Penrose and originally published in The Times The West’s answer to Russian aggression in Ukraine is pretty clear: if you invade Kyiv then it won’t just turn into the kind of guerrilla-war quagmire that exhausted and humiliated you into leaving Afghanistan years ago. We…
Dear Chris, I’m writing with a submission to contribute to your consultation on the MPs’ Code of Conduct. I hope that what follows will be helpful, and I am of course happy to fill in any further details which might help the Committee’s work if needed. I should add that…
It’s easy to mock Jacob Rees-Mogg’s new non-job. The man who famously declared that it would take 50 years to see the benefits of Brexit has been appointed minister for Brexit opportunities, with a mission to deliver benefits by the next election. The scale of that challenge was laid bare by…