America
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
Who will pound longest?
America has military might — but does it have the appetite for war?
We’re all living in America
For all the talk of “BRICS” and “multipolarity”, America is still number one
The Trump Doctrine seems incoherent
Can broad and lasting results be achieved with narrow and swift interventions?
How Latin America is reshaping Europe
It is not just the USA which is fuelling Americanisation
Britain should accept the American bear hug
Despite everything, the special relationship truly is special
A clinical note on Trump Derangement Syndrome
Advice on how to avoid and manage the condition
An ego trip to the movies
Melania is a fascinatingly terrible film
Donald Trump is endangering US alliances
The US should wind down its commitments in Europe without making enemies
The new age of empires
The world faces a new reality: three predatory imperial powers in Russia, China and the USA
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
Andy Burnham’s empty toolbox
Britain’s next Labour government will inherit a state too indebted to deliver the interventionism it dreams of
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
The meaning and meaninglessness of Makerfield
Andy Burnham has triumphed — but can he maintain his success?
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough