Peter Wilson
NZ parliament votes to ban semi-automatics
New Zealand’s parliament has voted 119-1 to pass the first reading of a bill that bans military-style semi-automatic weapons and brings in...
A tiny political party has thrown Theresa May’s Brexit plans into disarray
Theresa May’s strategy for navigating one of the British parliament’s most important weeks in 79 years was derailed at the last minute...
Brexit: Britain’s omni-shambles explained
Just two weeks from the UK’s scheduled departure from the European Union, British MPs have once again failed to decide the way...
Crunch time for Britain as week of votes to decide Brexit future
To say that this week represents a fork in the road for the UK would be to understate the bewildering range of...
Brexit chaos exposes Northern Ireland’s precarious position in UK
Two seemingly unrelated developments in recent days have confronted Britain with the fact that there is more at stake in its ham-fisted...
Theresa May offers Brexit delay after unprecedented revolt
An unprecedented revolt by her own senior ministers has forced British Prime Minister Theresa May to back down and allow Parliament to...
Jeremy Corbyn pushed into backing a second referendum on Brexit
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn appears to have been reluctantly pushed into backing a second referendum on Brexit in a turnaround that could...
Why Peta Credlin’s brief UK visit does not make her a Brexit expert
Psychologists will spend years trying to unravel the denialism and post-truth politics that swept parts of the Western world in the early...
Why now might be the time for a rethink on Brexit
When Vladimir Putin tells you that you are handling a difficult democratic situation correctly you know it is time to have second...
UK’s Brexit should have taken a leaf out of John Howards’s playbook
The Brexit saga has reached yet another embarrassing low for Britain, with Prime Minister Theresa May racing to Brussels to seek last-minute...