Writing in the Gatestone Institute, Con Coughlin maps out the modern-day “Scramble for Africa”. Centred in war-torn Sudan, countries including Iran, China and most recently Russia have all expanded their involvement. Russia’s objective in providing arms, suggests Coughlin, is acquiring a strategic Russian naval base in Port Sudan.

Yay Brexit!
Brendan O’Neill in Spiked enthuses that Brexit is superior to just about anything else in the world. “There should be street parties” on the 10th anniversary of the popular vote to withdraw from the EU, he writes. “Let the bells peal for that momentous day when in our millions we said No to globalism.” The continuing surfeit of saboteurs and naysayers among Britain’s “idiot elites”, O’Neill snorts, are gripped by Brexit Derangement Syndrome.


