Donald Trump
Why is America always at war?
Sizable minorities on both the left and the right want America to intervene in fewer foreign conflicts and to exercise…
‘We don’t know what’s going on or why we’re doing this’: how Trump’s Iran gamble backfired
‘Donald Trump is a complicated person with simple ideas,’ said Kellyanne Conway, the former White House senior counsellor. ‘Way too…
The King is still our Trump card
George III has not been well remembered on either side of the Atlantic. Despite reigning for almost 60 years, in…
‘Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness’ is genius marketing
Last Monday, I delivered a speech to mark the 250th anniversary of Adam Smith’s second-best book: An Inquiry into the…
Those who believe in liberalism must now fight for it
I’m conscious that, just as the easiest way to lose an argument is to mention Hitler, so the easiest way…
Will Iran scupper King Charles’s US state visit?
In April, King Charles is scheduled to visit the United States to mark 250 years since America achieved its independence.…
Can Trump defeat Senate Republicans over the SAVE Act?
I know that the world is focused on Iran but here’s what President Trump wrote on Truth Social Sunday about…
Revenge of the cheese-eating surrender monkeys
French President Emmanuel Macron’s approval rating rose by six points last week. It will likely continue to climb following his…
Will Alberta become the 51st state?
Albertans are very good at keeping things that damage their prosperity out of their province. Take rats, for instance. The…
‘Whose side are you on?’: How Keir Starmer alienated Britain’s allies over Iran
The American-Israeli attacks on Iran were publicly called Epic Fury, but behind the scenes it is Britain’s handling of the…
Operation Epic Fury is already tearing the MAGA movement apart
When President George W. Bush invaded Mesopotamia in 2003, everybody laughed at Comical Ali, the bespectacled Iraqi information minister who…
Tracey Emin should remake her bed
Sir Keir Starmer’s position on the US bombing of Iran is inglorious, but one should suspend disapproval to understand how…
Is this Starmer’s finest hour?
A friend met Mary Wilson on the Isles of Scilly, where she and her husband, Harold, had a home. She…
Is it wise for Spain to goad Donald Trump?
Spain’s refusal to allow the United States to use its military bases at Morón de la Frontera (Seville) and Rota…
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.…
