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As conflict with Iran hots up across the Middle East, your co-pilot blast in to make sense of the madness.
Strapping into the rocket is Dr Alan Mendoza, Co-Founder and Executive Director of The Henry Jackson Society to give his expertise on the conflict and how the ‘special relationship’ is faring as the PM holds back on British intervention.
Allison thinks delays to assisting US forces has left the UK as ‘billy no mates’ should we need military help in the future.
Liam looks at the economic fallout as the Strait of Hormuz is closed and this could send the cost of living soaring again for the British people.
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Read Allison ‘Rachel Reeves’s Freudian slip betrayed the truth about this Government’:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/04/rachel-reeves-freudian-slip/ |
Read Allison ‘Trump is right. Starmer has humiliated the land of Churchill’ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/03/starmers-cowardice-over-iran-shames-britain/ |
Read more from Allison: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/a/ak-ao/allison-pearson/ |
Read Liam ‘The tide is turning on ludicrous net zero policies’: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/03/01/rumours-of-oils-demise-have-been-greatly-exaggerated/ |
Read more from Liam: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/liam-halligan/ |
Read Liam’s Substack: https://liamhalligan.substack.com/ |
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