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Carl Benjamin: The problem with the British right...

The problem with the British right is that nobody is able to create a big tent which can encompass those who wish to push hard on certain issues alongside the wimpy types who can't help but be obsequious to the liberal opinion. It should have been Nigel Farage, but he didn't have the stomach to follow in the footsteps of Trump and repudiate the media and rely upon the online cohort to project his message. He also wasn't brave enough to stake out a popular but controversial position and judo-flip the media into spreading this message for him. Purging his right has just created more problems, in fact, worse problems than having the hardliners inside the tent. This is the lesson that Keir Starmer also learned the hard way: you might not like your radicals but they are a non-trivial percentage of your coalition, so you must tolerate them. Starmer didn't, and they went to the Greens. Farage didn't, and they became Restore. Labour are rebuilding their tent as Burnham is morally more aligned with his radicals than not. Farage doesn't seem to be able to extend this kind of sympathy to his flank, so it seems he will be unable to make any progress on this issue. The Reform goose is cooked if their star player is the reason that they can't advance any further. No good moves left for them to make.

Pouria Zeraati: Messed up again :)) Trump...

Messed up again :)) Trump: 'The officials of the Islamic Republic are truly two-faced; it's unbelievable. They themselves request meetings, some of them even beg for it. Negotiations start, and it's even scheduled to continue soon, but then in front of the cameras, they say there's no negotiation at all, nothing has been discussed, and they're only in contact with Oman. Then, as usual, they start chanting that the Strait of Hormuz is firmly under their control; while right now, the Strait is completely in the hands of the US Navy, and the blockade that some call the "American Steel Wall" is in place. Nothing enters Iran unless we want it to; and until an agreement is reached or complete surrender happens, there will be no imports. Whether the Islamic Republic accepts it or not, we are negotiating to solve a problem that it itself has created over the past few decades. The matter is very simple; The I.R. will never get its hands on a nuclear weapon.'

Daniel Lacalle: Some are blaming Trump for Spain’s...

Some are blaming Trump for Spain’s migrant crisis, citing U.S. recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara as a trigger. But Spain's Socialist PM already shifted his position on the Sahara months ago, without parliamentary approval. Sanchez's reckless pull-factor pro-migration policies, mass regularizations, and subsidies are to blame... and 22 EU nations agree. Blaming others does not change the facts.
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