US Politics
If you come at the king…
Trump’s response to being shot has affirmed his status as a Great Man of History
It isn’t ageist to want Joe Biden to drop out
People are concerned about his condition, not his age
Go woke, go broke?
The collapse of Vice Media is a story of an American left — aggressive, iconoclastic, irreverent — that no longer exists
The wellspring of woke
The right should stop “owning the libs” and focus on state power
American politics at the crossroads
And its short but bitter history
The US must resolve its Ukrainian contradiction
Avoiding dialogue with Russia is reckless folly
The technological escalation
Will the US semiconductor strategy prevail against China?
Populists: doing us all a favour
Don’t sneer at those who challenge the vested interests of the elite
The slippery slope reality
When tolerance revises its demands upwards
CNN’s optical delusion
How American progressives get “TERF Island” wrong
Can Macron survive?
France appears to be becoming ungovernable
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
A race to the bottom
Women should not give legitimacy to an appalling platform
When the farmers took on Starmer
It was an inspiring day in London as farmers resisted Labour’s class warfare
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
A bloodless coup in Bucharest
How can elections be cancelled without substantive reasons even being presented?
Not a relaunch
Is that a PLAN FOR CHANGE in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
A tumultuous decade of ingenious novelties
Did the English Revolution go full circle, replacing one overmighty king with another?
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
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
