America
Letter from Washington: In defence of American sport(s)
Would the super league have made football more American? If only.
Take Biden seriously
Why the new president’s call for unity is more than a platitude
Wherefore art thou, America?
The United States’s travel ban makes us all poorer
Covid and stogies on the campaign trail
A trip through a swing state reveals the complex dynamics of a strangely disembodied presidential race
America’s Southern Gothic Moment
Why is the American south still regarded as repository for all the shortcomings of America?
France, Mali and military coups
French interventionism in Mali has fostered little stability
A pigment of her imagination
The pitfalls of (not) being black in American academia
Why can’t California control predictable fires?
California’s rulers again shift the blame to conservatives rather than admit their own incompetence
A spy all along
Morton Sobell went on trial for espionage with the Rosenbergs. His devotion to communism fascinated me
Divided by a common Christian faith
While American churches remain deeply split on racial lines, there are hopeful signs of a rapprochement
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
John Swinney’s Isla Bryson moment?
The Scottish Government must be made to face the facts on sex and gender
A matter of life and death
It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life
A bleak midwinter
For fans watching QPR struggle for the past two decades, it feels like the club is cursed
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
Ministry of Silly Thoughts
Wes Streeting made the grave error of consulting the British people
Season’s bleatings
Christmas is almost here, but our MPs are not in the festive spirit
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
Should you really admit to regretting having kids?
Lamenting parenthood creates a psychological trap
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
