Starmer couldn't be clearer: Britain must prepare for war To spend 3% of GDP on defence, the PM needs to find an extra £13bn. That's difficult, especially when the government could U-turn on some ...

Clement Attlee was the ... The UK's armed forces must move to "war-fighting readiness" over the coming years, the UK faces a "more serious and immediate" threat than anytime since the Cold War, ...

NATO is meeting this week at a moment of very real crisis. Donald Trump’s second presidency has thrown the globalised world order into chaos. Old certainties are being torn up. Trump threatens to ...

Clement Attlee was the Labour prime minister credited with creating the welfare state. On Monday, at a shipbuilding yard in Glasgow, Sir Keir Starmer presented himself as a Labour prime minister ...

Nato was set up in 1949, at the behest of Clement Attlee’s Labour government, as a way of aligning the efforts of the US and the western European powers at the start of the cold war. In reality it was ...

Nato was set up in 1949, at the behest of Clement Attlee’s Labour government, as a way of aligning the efforts of the US and the western European powers at the start of the cold war. In reality it was ...

With the war in Europe at an end, these close colleagues became fierce election rivals. Featuring historian John Bew, author of Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee. See more episodes ...

At the recent Shangri-La Dialogue, Malaysia’s Anwar Ibrahim reaffirmed that a new cold war is afoot. It puts ASEAN in a bind on how to negotiate the US-China rivalry. The ‘red line’ on ...

David Runciman tells the story of the 1945 election and the dawn of a new age. With the war in Europe at an end, Churchill and Attlee became fierce election rivals. Show more David Runciman tells ...

China accused Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth of espousing a “Cold War mentality” in a speech “filled with provocations” in Singapore on Saturday. “Hegseth deliberately ignored the call ...