Donald Trump
Trump will not discredit Europe’s populist right
European populism is a lot deeper than mere Trumpism
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The Arctic circle: a game of ice and fire
The Arctic is fast becoming a hotspot for great power competition
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
The Symphony’s Indian summer
Imagine hearing a symphony for the first time
Dangerous liasons
Does Keir Starmer have a plan for dealing with Donald Trump?
Why the left has nowhere left to go
Chris Bayliss and Tom Jones discuss how progressivism got left behind
Suicide of an author’s credibility
Matt Goodwin has done the causes that he represents no favours with his new book
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
The dark side of the White House
As in ancient Rome, power politics are always a promising arena for drama
Sexy sisters and holy hotties
Less Sister Simper, more Attila the Nun
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Come together
Some political truths on which we can all agree