American History
Hail to the Chief (Part V)
Graham Stewart talks to Prof Jeremy Black about how the power of the US president has been exercised since the end of the Cold War
Hail to the Chief (Part II)
The American Civil War and the expansion of executive power
Will Starmer’s immigration gambit backfire?
The prime minister might have opened a box that he cannot close
Land of fire and blood
The detours, if at times distracting, are worth the price of this historical journey
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
Sausage to fortune
Vague promises might haunt Starmer more than an embarrassing gaffe
The Candy Man can
The people’s party: now bankrolled by one of the country’s richest property developers
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
The effects of Brexit are still being misreported
A new paper has received a lot of attention — all of it undeserved
A constructive opposition
The age of Badenoch is off to a suitably farcical start