James Flanders

Pleasure to host @AldiUK boss Giles Hurley editing @TheSun Money Daily yesterday - revealing why Aldi will be the cheapest place to shop this Easter, plus his call to back British farmers by buying British 🇬🇧

ED Miliband’s North Sea policy is now so bonkers that even the green crowd are starting to hum “drill, baby, drill”… Read my column below: thesun.co.uk/money/38557559…

Update on that Starmer-Reeves growth project: Growth in November 2025: 0.2% Growth in December 2025: 0.1% Growth in January 2026: 0.0%

No, he still doesn’t get it. If you can’t secure shipping lanes 70% of the resources, goods and food the UK needs won’t arrive. If you fail to deliver energy and data security you can’t grow the economy or protect the NHS. If you don’t modernise our armed forces, you can’t deter conflict. What will it take to get you to do your first duty Prime Minister?

“The stupidity of that decision allowing international lawyers of a dubious provenance to determine the national interest of the United Kingdom is a disaster for transatlantic relations.” The special relationship has reached a new low, says @AfNeil.

We knew on Saturday that our allies in Canada and Australia had backed the action taken by the United States and Israel. Yet Keir Starmer still couldn’t tell the British people where our country stood or whether the UK would allow the use of our own airbases. It took Iranian missiles hitting allies in the Middle East and a UK base in Cyprus before Starmer finally approved the use of our bases, and this morning the Foreign Secretary still can’t say if the Labour government supports the action against Iran. Iran’s regime has funded international terrorism, attacked British nationals, brutally repressed its own citizens calling for freedom, and continues to try and develop a nuclear weapon. It should not be beyond our government to say they welcome the US-Israel taking action. But, particularly in the wake of the by-election last week, the Labour government are too scared to say what is obvious to the rest of us. In towns and cities across Britain there are large blocs of voters – that Labour see as their voters – whose political loyalties are swayed by conflicts in the Middle East, not the British national interest. So we watch our Prime Minister and Cabinet Ministers squirm and obfuscate in interviews, because they cannot say what needs to be said because too many of their voters do not want to hear it. It isn’t ‘international law’ or principle. It’s pure, partisan, political calculations from a party that has surrendered its right to govern our country. I will always act in our national interest.

This is so so sad. John is a good man, I have known him for 16 years, we both did the USA/UK political exchange programme together as young MPs. He is sound on this stuff, I suspect he is being constrained by a timid, weak PM that has an islamists left flank that he fears/trying to please. Makes the United Kingdom an irrelevance on the world stage, when we should be standing with the Iranian people at their moment of need. On the wrong side of history 💔👇🏽

Hell has a postcode - it’s Earl’s Court station at weekday rush hour. SW–E connections? Abysmal. Capacity? A joke. Commuters crushed while services crawl. Why is no one fighting for better links? Always a total disgrace and embarrassment. @ChelFulhamBen @TfL @transportgovuk

Has the Bitcoin bubble burst? I spoke to some experts to reveal if now is prime time to cash in on the great crypto crash thesun.co.uk/money/38145321…

Starmer going for the “I share your anger” like he’s some random bystander to this all.

@christiancalgie Thanks Calgie xx

@JamesFlanderss Congratulations! x

One perfect week in Cape Town and somehow I left engaged 💍

@jb_dodsworth Thanks James. Chuffed all round!

@JamesFlanderss Congrats James, great day for you and the rest of the family, bet they're very proud

@lukerobertblack Thanks Luke!

@JamesFlanderss Huge congratulations. What lovely pictures too

After two trips to northern South Africa, this gloomy January convinced me it was time for Cape Town - first visit! 🌞 Getting there in style on the @British_Airways Dreamliner ✈️ 11h 9m

While everyone is distracted by Beckham and Greenland, the O'Leary vs. Musk spat quietly produced absolute comedy gold yesterday 🍿

Another day another splash… this time it’s bad news for Guinness fans.

Tomorrow's front page: BIN DIESEL Fuel pumps to start vanishing within 4 years thesun.ie/motors/1637284…