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Keir Starmer, leader of the Labour Party, and Richard Parker, Labour’s newly elected West Midlands Mayor, celebrate with activists at the ICC in Birmingham on Saturday, May 4, 2024. Photo: Keir Starmer / Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Gorton and Denton By-election: End of the Conservative-Labour Dominance?

President Donald Trump participates in a joint press conference alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, December 28, 2025. Photo: Official White House Photo / Daniel Torok / The White House / Flickr, Public Domains.

Five Reasons Trump’s Plan for Ukrainian Elections and a Peace Referendum Will Only Prolong the War

St Peter's Square, Vatican City - April 2007 Photo by DAVID ILIFF. License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

If Pope Leo Joined Trump’s Board of Peace, it Would Compromise Centuries of ‘Positive Neutrality’

Nestled in a remote corner at the “Top of the World” lies Thule Air Base, Greenland, the Department of Defense’s northernmost installation, located 750 miles north of the Arctic Circle, Aug. 16, 2022. Photo: U.S. Space Force / Paul Honnick / Wikimedia Commons, United States Government Work.

Greenland: Staying with the Polar Inuit. How a Secret Military Base Helped Trigger the Silent Collapse of an Arctic World

President Donald Trump and U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer board Marine One at Royal Air Force Lossiemouth, Scotland on Monday, July 28, 2025, en route Trump International Scotland in Aberdeen. Photo: The White House / Official White House Photo / Daniel Torok / Flickr, US Government Works.

A Shifting World Order Must Mean the End of the US-UK ‘Special Relationship’

NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg sits with Dutch PM Rutte before his NPA address, 2014. Photo: NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization / Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

What Can a NATO Secretary-General Do When Facing War?