America
The best leader we never had
I spent Monday afternoon with The Wake Up Call, a new book by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge that lambasts…
US protestors are clearing the way for Trump
‘This city is not going to stop burning itself down until they [the protestors] know that this officer has been…
The greatest showman
Is Trump about to pull off his most spectacular trick yet?
We-ness rising
Back in March, I made a long-odds bet that Michelle Obama would be the Democratic party’s vice-presidential nominee. I knew…
A taste of the continent
Is it safe to visit the continent? On the one hand, abroad is likely to be less crowded this August…
Double trouble
American Pickle is a comedy based on a short story by Simon Rich, originally published in the New Yorker, and…
Cancelling Kindergarten Cop is a step too far
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s late-Eighties to early-Nineties comedies have not gone down in history as great triumphs. Films like Junior and Twins…
Has Trump’s Covid-19 response really been so dire?
The sight of Donald Trump fumbling with charts during his interview on HBO this Monday has provided much ammunition for…
Shades of Joe
What should the world expect from a President Biden?
Tear gas Ted
The mayor manning Portland’s barricades
Diary
Four years ago, I bought a ranch in Wyoming. Not that I was tired of New York, but I’m fascinated…
Unleash chaos
How Putin plans to make the West destroy itself
Barometer
Worth a shot? How worried should we be about people refusing to have a Covid-19 vaccine if one is developed?…
Letter from Texas
Austin My first Independence Day in the US for many years. Usually I’d be in Paris avoiding Texas heat. My…
Moving mountains
Donald Trump is fighting back against America’s historical revisionists
Power putsch
This is no leftist revolution
Why Biden might be better for Brexit Britain
At the best of times, US presidential elections require the British government to walk a tightrope. In 1992, a Tory…
Barometer
The Colston chronicles Who, exactly, was Sir Edward Colston? Colston was born into a family of merchants and spent the…
Lethal force
The truth about America’s police culture
Black lives didn’t matter
Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods is about four African-American vets who return to Vietnam to locate the body of their…
A question of tolerance
Our public figures must rediscover the true spirit of liberty
Marching against racism is too easy
When I first saw the footage of George Floyd being asphyxiated by a policeman’s knee on his throat, my reaction…
Law and disorder
In Minneapolis, where George Floyd was killed, a black entrepreneur had his bar destroyed before he even had a chance…
Hiding Biden
The less voters see the Democratic nominee, the more they like him
Real problems erase fake ones
Last week, a friend quoted a two-year-old email of mine: ‘I’m starting to root for a plague or world war…
