j.d. vance
Why Iran doesn’t want peace
Perhaps we should be used to be this by now. Yet again, there have been a flurry of promises to…
Portrait of the week: Trump attacks the Pope, Trump praises the King and Melania goes public
Home Lord Robertson of Port Ellen, the former secretary general of Nato, said: ‘We are under attack. We are not…
Sorry, but America still holds all the cards
“Negotiations.” Are you heartened or dismayed by that word? Those who remember or who have read up on the seemingly…
Orbán’s defeat is a warning to MAGA
Hungary’s Viktor Orbán was the first populist of the 21st century. The problems his country faced, he said, were immigration…
De Gaulle or nothing: lessons from the General
The first time I set foot in the White House as a Labour political adviser, in spring 2024, to see…
Does it matter if Prince William believes in God?
The Prince of Wales seeks to assure us that, as a friend puts into his mouth, ‘I might not be…
What Signalgate tells us about Iran
Remember Signalgate? It was quite the story, and worth revisiting now in light of Operation Epic Fury, the ongoing crisis…
Could the Donroe Doctrine turn Marco Rubio into the president-in-waiting?
It required an incredible amount of sophistication to achieve the desired result in Caracas: a dictator detained and transported alive.…
Will the ‘bunny boiler’ tag continue to haunt single women?
From the femme fatale of noir to Fatal Attraction’s Alex, the unattached female has often been feared and scorned
Can anyone stop J.D. Vance becoming president?
As Donald J. Trump flew to the Holy Land on Sunday to declare peace, his Vice-President took to the airwaves…
How many organisations are proscribed in the UK?
Mind your manors US Vice-President J.D. Vance is holidaying in an £8,000-a-week manor house near Charlbury in the Cotswolds. What…
Give J.D. Vance a glimpse of real Britain
We’re used to strange sights in north Oxfordshire. The first person I ever met in our small Cotswolds town was…
The bully-boy tactics of Trump and J.D. Vance
Just before Russia invaded Ukraine three years ago, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping announced a ‘friendship without limits’. The phrase seems…
J. D. Vance is the future of MAGA
The vice-presidency of the United States has always been the butt of jokes. ‘I don’t plan to be buried until…
We need to learn to pray again
God is real, Rod Dreher insists, and we’re born to be in communion with him. But the focus and mental commitment that prayer requires are impossible if we’re forever doom-scrolling
High life
New York Alexandra rang me from London to enquire about a man by the name of Klaus Schwab: ‘He sounds…
Whiplash
Hillbilly Elegy is an adaptation of the best-selling memoir, published in 2016, by J.D. Vance and it’s quite a story.…
