US Politics
The Cosa Nostra in suits
Big business acts as a mafia, squeezing suppliers and raising prices for customers
Overthrowing the kritarchy
The overturning of Roe v. Wade would be a victory for democracy
Rod Dreher comes home
The conscience of the New World is here in the Old
Doubling down on a fraud
Recalling the murky role played by civil rights leader Rev Al Sharpton in a notorious faked abduction case
The noise before defeat
Even a good retreat would not have rescued a bad war
The Second Coming of George W. Bush
The public image of the 43rd President of the United States has undergone a surprising revival
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
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
“Nice” people need to read this book
How women have been hounded throughout the gender wars
The case for Badenoch
She has a chance to capitalise on Starmer’s weakness
The blame, again, falls on Sinn Fein
The party responded appallingly to its press officer being accused of child sex offences
The Susie Green light
Businesses should not be legitimising the controversial CEO
The golden age of criticism?
There are good reasons why serious writers no longer review in the national press
A passionate battler for buildings
A manichaean choice between the organic adaptation of old buildings and the beauty of the new
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the forgetting of feminist principles
Single-sex toilets are essential if we are going to respect women’s personal space
Scruton and the roots of modern conservatism
Roger Scruton’s path from sophisticated soirées to a squalid Fleet Street pub
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
A full-blooded blow-out
Kurt Weill: Symphonies, Seven Deadly Sins (DG)
