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Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer attends a joint press conference with US President Donald Trump (unseen) following their meeting at Chequers, in Aylesbury, central England, on September 18, 2025. ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP

Has Keir Starmer passed his sell-by date?

There are rumblings in the party after the loss of a deputy and an ambassador to Washington

Bryn Haworth 25 September 2025
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Trump's visit tests 'special' US-UK relationship

Despite Trump's often hostile engagement with traditional US allies, Starmer has trodden a careful path to keep him on side. But is this sustainable?

Christopher Phillips 16 September 2025
The UK's National Security Advisor Jonathan Powell, who has a track record of helping enemy combatants agree terms. Shutterstock

Jonathan Powell: the UK’s ultimate fixer flies into world hotspots

The diplomat who Tony Blair credited with negotiating the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland is now talking to the Turks, Kurds, Syrians, Ukrainians, and Americans, to name but a few.

Con Coughlin 27 July 2025
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer attends a meeting with business leaders in central London on January 28, 2025. BENJAMIN CREMEL / POOL / AFP

Between Trump and the EU, Britain feels increasingly isolated

With its bonds with the EU severely weakened and a long way from repair, Britain will find it much harder to take any kind of stand against Trump for fear of being isolated

Christopher Phillips 06 February 2025
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer (L), Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni (C) and Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama attend a working group session on Migration in Woodstock, southern England, on July 18, 2024. Hollie Adams / AFP

Goo-goo for Giorgia: Why Starmer is so smitten with Italy's migration policies

A look at Meloni's deal with Albania and what Labour hopes to learn from the far-right Brothers of Italy and its tough-on-migration approach

Bryn Haworth 05 October 2024
Riot police face protestors in Bristol, southern England, on August 3, 2024. Justin Tallis/AFP

The UK is in the grip of nationwide rioting over illegal immigrants

After three children were killed, false reports on social media said the killer was a Muslim asylum seeker who had arrived on a small boat. Incensed, Britons have taken to the streets, bricks in-hand

Con Coughlin 06 August 2024
Keir Starmer, leader of Britain's Labour party, reacts as he speaks at a reception to celebrate his election win at Tate Modern in London, Britain, on July 5, 2024. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett/

Landslide for Labour: Unpacking Britain's seismic shift to the left

Labour's landslide win ushers in the most left-wing government Britain has had since Harold Wilson in the 60s and 70s.

Con Coughlin 05 July 2024
Britain's main opposition Labour Party Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy addresses delegates on the second day of the annual Labour Party conference in Liverpool, northwest England, on October 9, 2023. Paul ELLIS / AFP

David Lammy: Britain's next foreign secretary?

Is Lammy's support for the ICC arrest warrant for Netanyahu and a Palestinian state making Starmer—a staunch backer of Israel—uncomfortable?

Con Coughlin 03 July 2024
Demonstrators wave Palestinian flags and placards as they protest in Parliament Square in London on February 21, 2024, during an Opposition Day motion in the House of Commons calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. AFP

Parliament squabble over Gaza shows Britain's global decline

Where the UK was once able to direct EU foreign policy on major crises like Gaza, today it is a lone voice on the outside.

Christopher Phillips 29 February 2024
With an election now looking likely at some point this year, how are the two candidates likely to approach 2024, and can anything stop what looks like Labour's inevitable victory? Majalla

Starmer and Sunak gear up for UK polls with Labour in the lead

With an election now looking likely at some point this year, how are the two candidates likely to approach 2024, and can anything stop what looks like Labour's inevitable victory?

Christopher Phillips 04 February 2024
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Two years after October 7

06 October 2025

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Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa (L) visits the polling station where members of Syrian local committees have been casting their votes to select members of an interim parliament, in Damascus on October 5, 2025. LOUAI BESHARA / AFP
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Cheers and jeers as Syria votes in first post-Assad parliament

06 October 2025

Only 4% of 119 members selected in the indirect vote were women, and only two Christians, sparking concerns about inclusivity and fairness. Meanwhile, voting was postponed in Druze and Kurdish areas.

Subhi Franjieh
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Allies' anger over Gaza tests US support for Israel

03 October 2025

Trump may be willing to accept global isolation to keep supporting Israel, but at some point, he may conclude that he isn't getting enough from Netanyahu in return

Christopher Phillips
A shopkeeper looks out through a window displaying replicas of football trophies at a gift shop in Souq Waqif bazaar in Doha on July 24, 2025. Karim JAAFAR / AFP
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Qatar’s economic resilience and the road ahead

07 October 2025

Qatar is positioning itself not only to weather external shocks, but to thrive in a changing global environment

Neil Quilliam
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Morocco's influence on Matisse

02 October 2025

The famed painter (1869-1954) found both himself and the inspiration he needed in two visits to Tangier in the early 20th century, the effects of which are still very evident.

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