Barack Obama
Anatomy of a failure
Whatever happened to Barack Obama?
Forewarned is forearmed
President Obama was assailed for saying that the USA had no strategy on combating Isis. Vegetius (late 4th century AD), the…
To catch a killer
Politicians’ promises to bring those who murder British hostages to justice almost never come true
‘I don’t see the wisdom there once was’
Henry Kissinger on statesmanship from Richelieu to Obama
World disorder
The old cliché that ‘nothing happens in August’ has again been brutally disproved. From the centenary of the outbreak of…
Talking tough
Last year a Washington-based journalist called Mark Leibovich wrote This Town, a book whose thesis was, roughly, that Washington-based journalists…
Diary
I feel an intense antipathy for Vladimir Putin. No one on the international scene has aroused in me such dislike…
Portrait of the week
Home The British economy grew by 0.8 per cent in the first quarter of 2014, disappointing hotheads who’d expected 1 per cent. It…
High life
New York This is a tale of two escape artists in one city. Let’s start with my old friend the…
Lady in waiting
The actor David Niven was once badgered by the American columnist William F. Buckley to introduce him to Marc Chagall,…
Obama’s thwarted hope
He wasn’t the first president to promise to bend the arc of history. And he won’t be the last to fail
