Impeachment Follies: The case against conviction
Paul du Quenoy argues that Democrats are unlikely to achieve their dream of removing their most dangerous rival from contention in 2024
The Great Game: Eyewitness to Trump’s first post-presidential Super Bowl party
There were sombre scenes at Donald Trump’s Palm Beach Super Bowl party
Don’t look for any great departures in Biden’s domestic policy
The Republican opposition has no reason to enable any element of Biden’s agenda and every reason to oppose it
It’s Trump’s world, and Biden only governs in it
Paul du Quenoy says there is much greater continuity in Biden’s foreign policy than the current narrative suggests
Could there be a dark end to America’s constitutional crisis?
Coup talk, whether or not it is admitted as such, is plainly in the air at both ends of the spectrum
Donald Trump’s likeliest path to staying in office
A contingent election would provide at least a patina of respectable constitutionalism
Why Trump won’t concede
America is on the verge of a constitutional crisis
The morning after
What we know and can say about the 2020 US Election
Requiem for my neighbour: Robert Fisk (1946-2020)
Remembering the veteran Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk
A New Civil War? Not Bloody Likely
If the American left has any real hope of prevailing over Trump, it may well depend on the professionalism of uniformed men in arms
Don’t tell feminists what our priorities should be
We know the seriousness of the issues that affect us, thank you
Why Labour has the best history books
Labour continues to blunder down that long blind Blairite alleyway, unable to turn back or find an exit
The Irish should reject the new hate speech bill
It threatens free speech while offering dubious benefits for society
Sunak, false equivalence and the phantom far right
There is no comparison between the threat of Islamism and the threat of the far right
A cut above
Above all is the quietude, broken only by the snipping chatter of several scissors
A discordant song
Classical music may be the worst casualty of identitarian politics
The meaning of Navalny’s death
This tragic event illustrates the cruelty and fragility of the Kremlin
Parliamentary sovereignty (extreme edition)
Rwanda is safe. How do we know? Because we said so.
Pen pusher
My fascination with fountain pens
Disposable women?
Middle-aged women are routinely ignored and dismissed by society — it is time for that to change
A matter of National concern
This year’s race will come close to destroying its magic
