Why was Keir Starmer so keen to win Tony Blair’s endorsement in a video message praising the Labour leader’s “strength, determination and intelligence”? Officially, allies say Starmer saw the 25th anniversary of Blair’s 1997 landslide as a
Innuendo, tone-deaf singing and dreadful wages: as the cherished BBC panel game celebrates its half century, we look back at its finest moments – and its future
Anti-Russian bias seems to be inherent in the Western psyche, and a torrent of criticism recently unleashed against Moscow proves this. The bogey of ‘irredentist Russia’ is almost all.