(Read on, or view here: https://youtu.be/Qe2EZ5oKrlU) The mood music is cacophonous. With Labour facing disaster at the polls in under a fortnight and the scandal over Peter Mandelson’s appointment as US ambassador refusing to go away, the Prime Minister’s running out of friends. A move to chuck him out would be a bloody affair though. But, as our Political Correspondent Peter Spencer reports, there is one other remote but not implausible possibility. Sir Keir Starmer’s thoug

(Read on, or view here: https://youtu.be/Jkk33_sbd2M ) You really couldn’t make it up. With the Prime Minister facing a maybe tipping point with catastrophic local election results in less than three weeks, another one’s just rocked up in the shape of the Peter Mandelson scandal. All this just as he’s trying to define himself as guardian of the nation’s security, and a world leader trying to clear up the mess created by the US President. There’s no question Sir Keir Starmer i

(Read on, or view here: https://youtu.be/TnUdKAIavws ) Across the globe fingers are crossed in hope, and hands are clasped in prayer, that the latest talks will finally bring an end to the nightmare that Donald Trump has inflicted on us. There’s no knowing whether the desperately shaky ceasefire in at least parts of the conflict can be made to stick. But even on the best case scenario we Brits will pay a heavy price. It’s impossible to understate the enormity of it all. On t

(Read on, or view here: https://youtu.be/clxzPBRMv24 ) No getting round it, Donald Trump’s bit of fun in the Middle East is not going to plan. Could even have a whiff of Vietnam, when some funny little country tucked away the other side of the world showed America who’s boss. And who isn’t. But while that was their problem this one’s hitting everyone. And the range of knock-on effects here in UK is surprising. At least we all know where it’s all gone wrong. The ancient Chines

(Read on, or view here: https://youtu.be/Fnca4XeitBc ) The Middle East war could yet just fizzle out. But while it continues to rage parallels are being drawn with seismic events of yesteryear. The hit could be as bad as the world economic crisis caused by similar conflicts half a century ago. And the bleak outlook in eastern Europe is seen as up there with the fall of the Berlin Wall, only the other way round. As our Political Correspondent Peter Spencer reports, our Prime

(Read on, or view here: https://youtu.be/M6v4yCwxCUo ) With Donald Trump’s latest pronouncement half implying that he wants to butt out of the quagmire he’s created in the Middle East, two things are becoming clear. One, he’s finally clocked that it’s going to cost Americans as well as everyone else. Two, that he’s been played by the Israelis all along. The threat to his presidency now looms larger by the day. And our own Prime Minister’s looking like little more than collat

(Read on, or view here: https://youtu.be/t5LVmE5XNgU ) Russia’s bloodthirsty dictator Putin is having rather a good war in the Middle East, thanks to the one-time self-professed peacenik in the White House. No question Donald Trump is knocking seven bells out of the oppressive Iranian regime, but the deals he’s making to protect his own back yard surely can’t be part of the plan. All the while Keir Starmer can do little more than wring his hands in the sidelines. In the fog o