Tomorrow, the people of Clacton will go to the polls in a by-election. The ballot paper is huge, with no fewer than 34 candidates standing for the seat. The sitting MP, Nigel Farage of Reform UK, had a couple of financial scandals crop up. He resigned not out of shame and expiation but rather to…

Israel Rejects Gaza Peace Plan It has taken a couple of weeks, but the Israeli government has finally rejected the 15-point Gaza peace plan announced by Donald Trump’s ridiculous Board of Peace. The plan called for Hamas to disarm and for Israel to withdraw its forces from about half of Gaza. Hamas had already said…

Late last week, three of the largest regional powers in the Middle East signed a mutual defense pact. The Mecca Joint Deterrence Agreement binds Turkiye, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to come to one another’s defense in the event of an attack. This agreement, they claim, is not aimed at Iran, but it is quite clear…

The chatterati clutched their pearls and tore their garments yesterday as Abdul El-Sayed, a left-of-centre politico, won the Michigan Democratic nomination for the US Senate seat up for election this year. They worry that he is too far left, that he has trouble with white working-class and black voters, that he comes across as arrogant.…

The US-Israeli war with Iran and its proxies has depleted the American missile supply, bringing the stockpile levels to dangerous territory. The missiles in question are expensive and take a lot of time to build, meaning boosting stockpiles will cost millions if not billions and take months if not years. The risk is not that…