Donald Trump

What Trump’s Gaza plan means for the Middle East

15 February 2025 9:00 am

Donald Trump told reporters this week that he deserved the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to free some of the…

Why don’t Yale students want to drink?

15 February 2025 9:00 am

They say it is good to learn new skills as you get older. Well here goes. I am about to…

Portrait of the week: Andrew Gwynne sacked, Trump saves Prince Harry and a £30m refund over moths

15 February 2025 9:00 am

Home Andrew Gwynne was sacked as a health minister and suspended from the Labour party for making jokes about a…

The ancient art of making friends in high places

15 February 2025 9:00 am

‘I get along with him well. I like him a lot,’ Donald Trump has said of Sir Keir Starmer. ‘He’s…

Let Trump buy the Chagos Islands

15 February 2025 9:00 am

Forgive me for returning in this column to Diego Garcia. The issue is too important to shrug aside: important not…

Trump’s move on Canada is as mad as it’s insulting

8 February 2025 9:00 am

When I visited Toronto with a UK delegation last winter, conversation focused on the issues of immigration, housing and inflation…

Right young things: meet the Trumpian twentysomethings taking over Washington

8 February 2025 9:00 am

Washington, D.C. ‘What made you open a restaurant?’ I ask Bart Hutchins, the owner of Butterworth’s, a French-style bistro turned…

How art collective Remilia captured the MAGA movement

8 February 2025 9:00 am

The MAGA social scene was defined on the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration by the Coronation Ball – perhaps the…

Trump is like Shakespeare’s Fool

8 February 2025 9:00 am

President Trump’s role in relation to other countries resembles that of the Fool in Shakespeare. He provides a sort of…

Portrait of the week: Shoplifting surges, Trump eyes Gaza Strip and Norway’s government collapses

8 February 2025 9:00 am

Home Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, flew to Brussels for an EU summit, sought a ‘reset’ of relations and…

Britain could learn from Trump’s approach to foreign policy

8 February 2025 9:00 am

The Foreign Secretary describes his approach to diplomacy as ‘progressive realism’. One can legitimately ask what is progressive about a…

What economists don’t get about Trump’s tariffs

8 February 2025 9:00 am

We already knew that most economists are quite bad at economic policy. Unfortunately, foreign policy appears not to be much…

‘I am the German Donald Trump’: an interview with the AfD’s Maximilian Krah

8 February 2025 9:00 am

‘My knife is at your throat,’ says a Turkish barber, wielding a razor blade around Maximilian Krah’s face. Krah, one…

Donald Trump kicks off the tariff wars

2 February 2025 7:07 pm

He did it, Joe! Following on from the $79 billion worth of tariffs he implemented in his first term –…

How to solve a problem like the Chagos Islands

1 February 2025 9:00 am

Very soon – as soon as the mutual courtesies now being exchanged between the new American President and his British…

Peter Mandelson’s rocky path to Trumpworld

1 February 2025 9:00 am

The muddle about who’s to be the next British ambassador in Washington has been only a small part of the…

My message to the Trumpists

1 February 2025 9:00 am

Social media benefit from creating continuous belligerence in politics. For them, Donald Trump is the perfect politician. As I wrote…

The Reagan effect on wine lists

25 January 2025 9:00 am

Let us indulge in a slight paraphrase. What rough beast slouches towards the White House to be reborn? The inauguration…

Britain is losing friends – and making enemies

25 January 2025 9:00 am

Whatever way you voted in 2016, I suspect that many of us have the same image of post-Brexit Britain. It…

Give David Beckham a knighthood

25 January 2025 9:00 am

Donald Trump descends on Davos as if he were in Apocalypse Now. Four years ago I saw his cavalcade of…

Will Trump remember his allies?

25 January 2025 9:00 am

I had thought that having to be inaugurated indoors would have cramped Donald Trump’s style. Not so. The rhetoric with…

The Trump I (barely) know

25 January 2025 9:00 am

I can’t say I know the new President of the United States very well, but during the five years I…

The Trump resistance is dead

25 January 2025 9:00 am

The special relationship is dead, long live the special relationship. On Friday, at a ‘Stars and Stripes & Union Jack…

Portrait of the week: Trump’s inauguration, Israel-Hamas ceasefire and cardboard humans comfort lonely fish

25 January 2025 9:00 am

Home Axel Rudakubana, 18, pleaded guilty to the murder of three girls in a knife attack at a Taylor Swift-themed…

The Pope’s revenge: why the new Archbishop of Washington is such a controversial choice

25 January 2025 9:00 am

For an 88-year-old man who has spent only five days in the United States and doesn’t speak English, Pope Francis…