10 h. ago ANDREW NEIL: Labour's hollow drivel can't conceal that the defence of the realm is not safe in their hands

Donald Trump pulled off his second triumph of the week when Nato countries committed themselves to increases in defence spending

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5 d. ago ANDREW NEIL: A daring raid that means Iran's brutal regime has now run out of options... the end of days beckons

The clerical-military dictatorship which has ruled Iran for almost 50 years has run out of options.

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7 d. ago ANDREW NEIL: No future UK government has a hope of making things better if it can't reform our incompetent Left

Former Tory Cabinet minister, Michael Gove, this week revealed he had to overrule civil servants who wanted to suppress newspaper revelations about grooming gangs in Rotherham.

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8 d. ago ANDREW NEIL: The deeply personal vendetta driving Trump to deliver the fatal blow against Iran... and Israel's strategy to force his hand

For Trump, it's personal as well as political. The gun is locked and loaded. His finger is on the trigger. All Donald Trump has to decide now is when to pull it - and destroy Iran 's nuclear weapons facilities.

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1 week ago ANDREW NEIL: Iran's dictators have one final suicidal weapon they are now threatening to unleash. It will spell the end for them

A senior commander in Iran's Islamic Revol­utionary Guard Corps has warned that the regime, reeling from Israel's onslaught, might move to close the Strait of Hormuz.

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2 w. ago ANDREW NEIL: Israel holds the cards. Trump has been squared. The mullahs in Tehran must now fear for their existence

The United States did not participate in Israel's initial attacks on Iran but it certainly knew they were coming. Donald Trump admitted as much to the US media yesterday morning.

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2 w. ago ANDREW NEIL: Starmer's claim to be 'investing in Britain's renewal' is delusional drivel in a class of its own

'Our first job was to stabilise the economy and public finances,' Keir Starmer tweeted yesterday morning, a few hours before Rachel Reeves delivered Labour's spending plans.

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3 w. ago ANDREW NEIL: Like a clown running into a minefield, Musk threw caution to the wind, but he's right

When I boarded a flight for New York on Thursday, Donald Trump and Elon Musk were still sticking to the script: though the dizzy days of their bromance might be over, the separation was amicable.

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3 w. ago ANDREW NEIL: Starmer is shifting Leftwards to save his own skin. And that means one thing: yet more tax rises are coming our way...

I'm a man without conviction, I'm a man who doesn't know,' sang Culture Club's Boy George in his huge 1980s hit Karma Chameleon. It could be Keir Starmer's theme song.

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4 w. ago ANDREW NEIL: Putin just humiliated Trump. But was it a trap? There are White House whispers about what's coming next

It's taken long enough but Donald Trump is at last rethinking his benign view of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.

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