Has QAnon been vindicated?
QAnon is the online movement spawned by Q, a poster on the anonymous message board 4chan. In October 2017, they…
When Curtis Yarvin met Alastair Campbell
A video has been doing the rounds in which a woman holds an iguana up to the glass window of…
The Mandelson ‘joke’ fell flat in Washington
Lord Peter Mandelson is to the “Third Way” what Roger Stone is to populism – an alte kameraden from the freewheeling early…
Mandelson’s ambassadorship exposed Britain’s insularity
Lord Peter Mandelson is to the “Third Way” what Roger Stone is to populism – an alte kameraden from the freewheeling early…
Iryna Zarutska and the reality of American ‘two-tier’ justice
Under Trumpism the old certainties no longer hold and are starting to ebb away. Do illegal immigrants really have an…
Taylor Swift: queen of the normies?
Politicos used to know how to take the temperature of the nation. They could talk to their cab driver. They…
A global MAGA crusade against web regulation?
“Censorship is not how we do things in Western civilization”. So said Congressman Scott Fitzgerald (R-WI) of the United Kingdom’s…
Trumpism rules the world
Whatever loopiness there is in Donald Trump’s personality is a loopiness born of isolation. For ten years the history of…
MAGA is America’s third party
Gearing up to launch his new “America Party,” Elon Musk now speaks of a GOP-Democratic duopoly that has the country…
Henry VIII turned England upside down
Henry VIII, who was born on this day in 1491, is the only English monarch other than William the Conqueror…
Zohran Mamdani and the millennial soul
Rent controls don’t have a stellar track record but I’m no expert. In any case it’s academic. At 33, New…
The strange futility of the Musk-Trump feud
The Trump-Musk spat is not the sign of a new split between oligarchs and populists, as some have claimed –…
The rise of the liberal Caesars
The triumph of Mark Carney in the Canadian election has turned what seemed like a series of local flukes into a global…
Who cares about globalization?
Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” was the culmination of a 30-year insurgency against the global economic system. It was the most…
Who did Bill Ackman think he was electing?
To take on America’s entire governing class and win, Donald Trump proved that he had an inhuman level of willfulness…
We don’t live in an age of reason
When Tucker Carlson claimed to have been “physically mauled” by a demon in his sleep late last year, it was…
We don’t need ‘postliberalism’
In 1979 the price of gas at the American pump doubled to $39.50 a barrel – $172 in today’s money.…
Britain is not a technocracy
The term ‘technocracy’, or more often ‘technocrat’, is found everywhere. Both Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer are referred to as…
