American Politics
Say it ain’t so, Joe
How democratic is a shadowy cabal conspiring to hide the fact that Biden is too frail to govern?
All politics is existential now
NatCon DC was a reminder of the urgency of our political moment
Put the money back into politics
Business and politics rubbed along much better before restrictions were introduced
End of the Biden farce?
The President’s fragility has been obvious for years — but was he ever in control?
Avoiding the apocalypse
Bold diplomacy must avert an unimaginable crisis in the Middle East
The drowning man of Europe?
The cooling of Western attitudes towards Ukraine
The return of realism
There is a new tone to foreign policy debate
Twilight of the liberal Jew
Jewish Americans are shifting rightwards
Conservatism’s America problem
The British right is buying into a failed US culture war
United in hatred
America’s crisis of legitimacy
Labour’s economic plans are a disaster waiting to happen
They won’t save the planet and they won’t save the economy
Posh pinks
Upscale rosés sans biodynamic woo-woo, please
Alan Bennett at 90
From the small screen to the stage, Alan Bennett has been the poet of awkwardness and isolation
The subsidy squeeze
Schemes such as HS2 cost billions of pounds while reducing UK productivity
Declining nude
A life drawing class gets rather too real
When in Spain…
…gorge on Iberian delicacies
Commonwealth citizens should not be allowed to vote
Newly arrived non-citizens being allowed to vote makes a farce of British democracy
My Magyar dish
A dish that combines gravity with tradition, but is cheekily unorthodox
Hand to mouth
Delicacy, of unknown origins, makes us reluctant to pull plums with our thumbs
The Conservatives have been too soggy, not too harsh
Their voters expected them to cut taxes and immigration — they did the opposite
“Nympho” rides again
Mental housemistresses and banners displaying children in boaters
