The Iran war is Trump’s Suez crisis
Clarissa Eden famously declared that ‘in the past few weeks I have really felt as if the Suez Canal was…
How the Saudis wriggled out of the Iran conflict
Some of the highest-paid sportsmen in history, the golfers of the LIV league, had bad news recently. Saudi Arabia said…
The incredible case of Dr. Gorka
One of P.G. Wodehouse’s best-known characters, after Jeeves and Wooster, is Roderick Spode: fascist leader and secret purveyor of fine…
Welcome to the Taco presidency
Among the many gifts the Watergate scandal gave us was Nixon’s White House press secretary declaring: ‘This is the operative…
Trump’s fantasy of victory
Among the many gifts the Watergate scandal gave us was Nixon’s White House press secretary declaring: “This is the operative…
Could Iranian drones bomb Britain?
One night in 1909, in Peterborough, a police constable named Kettle looked up and saw ‘a strange cigar-shaped craft passing over…
Inside the daring plan to reclaim the Chagos Islands
Peros Banhos on the Chagos archipelago looks like your basic tropical island paradise: turquoise waters and golden sands, waves lapping…
Arctic role: what does Trump really want from Greenland?
Donald Trump has probably not read Machiavelli, even the short one, The Prince. Machiavelli’s most famous advice was that it’s…
Jared Kushner’s international friendships with benefits
In 1998, the conservative intellectual and moralist Bill Bennett published a book, The Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault…
