The Israeli newspaper Haaretz has published excerpts from a soon-to-be-published book that say Prime Minister Netanyahu and UAE President Al Nahyan had a phone conversation a week and a half before the October 7, 2023 attack in which the latter warned the former that the Hamas attack was coming. The PM’s office denies that there…

The British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband has announced that the UK and 11 other nations will impose economic sanctions on the illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Israel is having a conniption in response. The settlements’ very existence violates international law, and for decades, the Israelis have been getting away with expanding their occupation…

The voters in the German lander of Saxony-Anhelt have decided that the 1930s are back. They voted yesterday in elections for the regional parliament, and they opted to give the helm to Alternative fur Deutschland. AfD is how Nazi is now spelled. The supporters of the party will claim this is a lie and libelous,…

The little-Englanders in the Reform UK movement are holding their party conference this weekend in Birmingham. It is supposed to be a demonstration that Reform are prepared to take the reins of government, that they are serious people doing serious things in preparation for serious political accomplishments. Unfortunately, they are unserious grifters who have got…

Andy Burnham became British Prime Minister on July 20, 2026. Parliament had risen for the summer recess, and so he only had his first Prime Minister’s Question Time yesterday.  To the political virgins, PMQs look a lot like gladiatorial combat among the members of the Oxford Union. It is one of the few blood sports…