(Read on, or view here: https://youtu.be/hIwQCzef38Q) As the results tumbled in and Labour’s plight looked grimmer and grimmer, it can’t fail to have crossed the Prime Minister’s mind to quit the field and invite others to try their luck. Though finding a replacement would still be a messy affair, it’d be a lot less so than a campaign to unseat him. But as long as all sides keep schtum this remains a story without a top line. At least the rest of it falls into place fairly ti

Or inaction? Take your pick, and don’t be taken in by anyone doing the knowing tap in the side of the nose thing and claiming to have the answer. In a few days from now the politicos and the hacks will have to cede all to the voters in the Scottish and Welsh and local elections. And there’s no guarantee of a rational response when the numbers divvy out. No question, the figures look set to be terrifying for Labour. Polls are consistently pointing to them losing four-fifths of

(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