Sam Greene

Every decision and announcement about Europe, Ukraine, NATO which comes from this Administration is something that the Kremlin would want and welcome.

American strength back on the world stage. 🇺🇸🇨🇳

The latest lunacy from Moscow: the MVD has issued an arrest warrant for Ben Wallace, the former British defence minister (the charge isn't specified). I'm sure he'll be cancelling that beach holiday in Sochi now...

Under President Trump, we are unleashing the most aggressive federal anti-fraud efforts in American history. We won't rest until we root out every bit of fraud infecting our government and screwing over taxpayers. More coming tomorrow. Stay tuned.

An outcome where politics in England is dominated by Reform's aggressive Far Right authoritarianism and Greens with no deep commitiment to the Union, while Wales is dominated by Plaid Cymru and Scotland by the SNP is a pathway to the breakup of the UK

While refuting exaggerations like “Russia is finished,” we must not go to the other extreme and overstate the country’s achievements. Yes, the Russian economy has proven highly adaptable, but it survives through maximum strain on old assets and labor depletion. The industrial base of Russia, such as machine tools and microelectronics, remains critically dependent on imported means of production. There is no domestic modernization (it’s severely constrained under such conditions of war and sanctions). Factories are squeezing maximum output from existing, aging equipment by running in multiple shifts. Russia is attempting to replace Western equipment with Chinese alternatives. This reinforces Russia's technological dependence, under much harsher external conditions. The economy is facing technological simplification, relying on an extensive, low-productivity growth. This has been well-documented and is regularly reported, even by loyalist economic think tanks. Surviving sanctions is not the same as a structural technological independence.

The UK is not a football club. Chopping and changing managers is for Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur. We don’t need another Tudor. Starmer is a third rate communicator with no skills in picking people and leading teams. But toppling him midterm without an obvious alternative is a recipe for political and financial instability

Bias declared: I voted Labour 8 May in my western Surrey constituency, so I have a high tolerance for futility. But much as it pains me to say it, Labour don’t have a Starmer problem. Labour have a Labour problem. /1