Donald Trump
We can’t even give them away
Let’s not pretend we have sovereignty over the Chagos Islands
Cometh the hour, cometh the dealmaker
Trump’s ego might be just what the world needs
Turkey must be at the centre of Donald Trump’s policy for the Middle East
It would be pure folly to alienate such an important regional power
Why the Democrats cannot be populists
It goes against the managerial nature of the party
So many voters got it wrong
The ignorant masses have betrayed democracy
Liberal myths of the “good old ways”
Donald Trump’s foreign policy is not so very different from the Democrats’ imagined golden age of American leadership
The shell shock of the arts
How will the art world respond to its narrative shock?
Trump’s Bitcoin Boom
The UK should clarify its stance on the leading cryptocurrency sooner rather than later
Is the culture war over?
Populist political victories do nothing to change the reality of progressive institutional dominance
Donald Trump and the age of sovereign internationalism
We are entering a new age of great power competition
Noisy decline
Blaring incongruous sound is as much a sign of urban decay as piles of litter
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
Making a mockery of Labour
The ministers just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
You reap what you sow
Poor Daniel Zeichner was left to face the outrage that the Budget had caused
Israel and the danger of perpetual war
Friends of Israel should be alarmed about the prospect of fighting on numerous fronts
Invasion literature
It couldn’t happen here. Right?
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
