Donald Trump
When will Kash Patel unleash epic fury on the FBI?
As I write, the Washington Post is carrying an obituary about the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – or maybe it is about Santa…
Has it all gone wrong between Trump and Starmer?
‘The Special Relationship only exists when the Americans want something,’ a former Downing Street aide observed after Donald Trump rejected…
Learning from history requires sophistication and skill
While the past can never provide ‘how to’ guides for the future, Odd Arne Westad makes some interesting comparisons between the balance of power pre-1914 and the present
The deep state vs Nixon
Americans took a break from their partisan vituperation in February to mull over newly revealed testimony that Richard Nixon gave…
The art of conspiracy
If you lived anywhere near Kilburn half a decade ago, you might have noticed the messages one of our neighbours…
What does it take to get fired from Trump 2.0?
You’re not fired! One of the defining aspects of the second Trump administration so far has been the unwillingness of…
Trump’s America isn’t the outlier on greenhouse gases
Irresponsible Trump, responsible China: that is the message the BBC’s climate editor seemed to be sending us by juxtaposing the…
What Trump told me in my hour of need
‘The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom,’ espoused German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. Having spent the past fortnight…
Forgetting was the best defence for the Kindertransport refugees
Alfred and Doris Moritz remained largely silent about their persecution in Nazi Germany, having tried their best to erase the memory, according to their son Michael
After Trump comes reform
America needs Donald Trump, badly. He is the bull in the china shop that every nation needs from time to…
Epstein, the Clintons and the death of trust
Bill and Hillary Clinton had a choice: face criminal contempt charges or come clean about their friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.…
Will Trump bring about World War Three?
One of the enduring myths about Donald Trump is that he is an isolationist: a president bent on dismantling alliances…
Portrait of the week: Burnham blocked, Braverman bails and Starmer clashes with Trump
Home Labour’s National Executive Committee refused permission for Andy Burnham, currently Mayor of Greater Manchester, to stand in a by-election…
Where have all the graduate jobs gone?
It’s a relief not to have been pressganged into joining the Prime Minister’s plane-load of business chiefs and reporters bound…
What to make of Kevin Warsh
The news broke this morning that Donald Trump has, after considerable deliberation, settled on Kevin Warsh as his nominee to…
Does America want to re-litigate 2020?
The collective memory of Donald Trump’s claim that the 2020 election was stolen has, for most Americans, been buried if…
The unspoken logic of the anti-ICE mob
A basic question all Americans should ask themselves before they draw any other conclusions about events in Minneapolis is this:…
Melania the movie will send Bluesky ballistic
As America stayed inside at the weekend, terrified and frozen, the White House hosted its own movie night: the first-ever…
A conservative in the chaos of Minnesota
If you live in Minnesota, as I do, don’t turn on your TV. Don’t log on to social media. Don’t…
The fight over the future of the Chagos Islands
Westminster, London Donald Trump might be determined to acquire more US land – here in Britain, however, our leaders are…
Will the FBI burn through Kash?
FBI Director Kash Patel popped up in several news stories on Friday. He does this periodically, like a skin or…
Portrait of the week: Jenrick sacked, Chinese super-embassy approved and Trump makes a grab for Greenland
Home President Donald Trump of the United States made Britain and other countries dance to his tune. Sir Keir Starmer,…
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…
Call her Obama
Michelle Obama is the latest guest on the Call Her Daddy podcast – the raunchy girlfest “Howard Stern for women”…
Trump’s credible threat at Davos
The headline from Trump’s Davos speech is clear: I won’t use military force to take Greenland. That’s what the President…
