US Politics
Past his prime
Even the President of the United States has to know when to retire
Letter from Washington: Biden’s big truths and little lies
The president’s self-styled straight talking is less honest than it seems
Letter from Washington: A final miscalculation in Afghanistan
The bungled US withdrawal marks a low point in the Biden presidency
Angels, demons and videotape
What American journalism’s “teaching moments” teach us about American journalism
Letter from Washington: Afghan blues
The Taliban’s grimly predictable advance is a reminder that withdrawal is not the end of Biden’s Afghanistan headache
Letter from Washington: A grubby kind of normalcy
An ethical quandary surrounding Hunter Biden’s paintings points to a bigger problem
Letter from Washington: The Trumpism-without-Trump candidate
J.D. Vance thinks the MAGA movement is about more than the man
The American nightmare
San Francisco should serve as a cautionary tale as to what can happen when “progressive” far-left ideology dominates politics
The art of the comeback
What are Trump rallies for, now he is out of the White House?
Letter from Washington: Do Democrats really want to learn from 2020?
A supposedly honest election post-mortem is a symptom of the party’s problems
Uncertain times in Labour’s rugby league heartlands
The Labour Party and Rugby League have been central to the lives of working-class people in Batley for over a century. But for how much longer?
Samuel Beckett
A prize-winning old fraud
Boris Bunter
Is our Prime Minister the Fat Owl of the Government?
It’s not Rooney, it’s you
When identity is the primary means of engagement with art, criticism is reduced to mud-slinging
The vaccine passport fallacy
Why don’t we just charge the unvaccinated more?
No sex, please, you’re unvaccinated
The puritanical streak in the British character has gone into overdrive with Covid-19
Hot air
Climate change targets are rising at a dangerous rate
Should we be jabbing children?
Severe events are rare, but that doesn’t absolve us from our duty of care
Resurrecting the great British sitcom
We are getting dangerously close to saying British sitcom itself should be off limits
Prudes against nudes
Feminist protests put a puritanical limit on the aesthetic quality of nudity