30.12.2025
Americans should steer clear of European ethno-nationalistsAfter 1945 the European Right copied America; now it is the other way around...
24.12.2025
Trumpism makes America more vulnerableJunking old alliances and burning decades of accumulated trust is rarely a sensible strategy...
18.12.2025
Not all immigrants are equalWhat happens when a welfare system designed for Swedes is applied to Somalis...
12.12.2025
The big Brexit benefitThe chief advantages are negative, in the sense of being able to stand aside from terrible EU policies...
04.12.2025
Trump is a godsend for the BBCThe president's lawsuit is a distraction from the problem of structural bias...
28.11.2025
Nick Fuentes and the descent of the American RightAnd what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?...
20.11.2025
America embraces monarchical ruleGeorge III never had, and never wanted, the right to levy taxes without Parliament...
14.11.2025
The Trump vibe shift reaches the UKSince the murder of Charlie Kirk, the Right has given up on free speech...
30.10.2025
Iceland! Say no to the EU!The issue was dead in that happy little country before Trump began to threaten Greenland...
24.10.2025
Imagine a capitalist GazaIf Donald Trump can pull this off, I'll be prepared to forgive a great many things...
18.10.2025
Even Trump doesn’t really think tariffs workIf he did, he would not be suggesting free trade as a way to rebuild Gaza...
02.10.2025
Have tariffs ended the special relationship?For all Trump's Anglophilia, the two great English-speaking democracies are drifting apart...
26.09.2025
On the brinkThe reactions to the horrific assassination revealed a nation teetering on the edge of breakdown...
22.09.2025
When did Britain turn against free speech?It has less to do with any specific law than with the culture of public bodies...
14.09.2025
MAGA’s degrading support for PutinIs it that Trump and Russia are on the same team? Or is it that they'd rather have a proper, full fat autocracy?...
08.09.2025
Tariffs are a racket for lobbyistsI'll never understand how protectionists get away with presenting themselves as champions of ordinary workers...
31.08.2025
The American government is more pro-British than our ownTrump's keenness to work with Britain is a headache for Starmer...
11.08.2025
How conservative think-tanks sold their soulsIn following the MAGA trend, they became traitors to their purpose ...
07.08.2025
Too late for UkraineTrump has restored US military aid just at the moment when Zelensky seems doomed...
30.07.2025
There’s a reason third parties failAnd I'm pretty sure that Elon Musk knows it, and has planned accordingly...
18.07.2025
How MAGA turned against states’ rightsAs always, the only thing that matters is backing Trump's whims...
10.07.2025
Bearding the ayatollahsThe Islamic Revolution was disastrous in the same way as every other revolution...
02.07.2025
Trump turns on AUKUSIf the US won't stick to agreements with even its closest allies, no country can trust it...
26.06.2025
Was it all bullshit?The annual deficit is 11 times higher than when the Tea Party launched, yet they have disappeared...
18.06.2025
Sanctions never workIt's as true of Israel as Iran, though a different set of people buy the argument this time...
08.06.2025
As pubs close, England retreats into anomieEven in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, a measure of free speech survived in pubs...
28.05.2025
Don’t blame free-marketeers for economic nationalismCapitalism does not mean 'something I don't like"...
22.05.2025
The fratricide of India and PakistanTheir tragic semi-conjoined birth guaranteed bad blood...
16.05.2025
The Right has missed its momentA global reaction against woke and big statery was underway until Trump tainted the brand...
08.05.2025
We are too complacent to halt the coming warLike the generation of 1914, we are unable to picture what lies ahead...
28.04.2025
The US is just one more Latin American countryCaudillismo, territorial expansionism, contempt for the constitution, jailing opponents, protectionism...
20.04.2025
America heads for meltdownOne's man obsession will immiserate the US and impoverish the world...
14.04.2025
Trump has resuscitated the global LeftEspecially in the countries that feel the pressure of MAGA revanchism...
08.04.2025
The threats to Canada shame AmericaTrump is railing against his own trade deal - and his officials are too cowed to say anything...
02.04.2025
If Trump were a Russian asset, what would he be doing differently?Switching sides in Ukraine, telling the NSA to stop monitoring Russia, picking fights with Nato allies...
22.03.2025
America switches sidesIn backing Russia against Nato, Trump has destroyed the international order...
16.03.2025
Nato is finishedThe bureaucracy may limp on for a few more years, but the alliance is done as a force in world affairs...
08.03.2025
Free speech or mass immigration - pick oneInstead of making newcomers adapt to our culture, we are doing the opposite...
28.02.2025
America turns on its loyal alliesThe MAGA crowd don't care that Denmark and Canada have been loyal friends for decades...
16.02.2025
Britain is warming to TrumpNegative polarisation is driving his popularity on the Right...
02.02.2025
Time for an Anglosphere UnionInstead of threatening Canada, Trump should offer a closer security and trade partnership...
28.01.2025
Musk pursues disruption for its own sakeShaking things up can sometimes make them worse - as conservatives used to understand...
16.01.2025
Should libertarians copy Javier Milei’s coarse style?"We're all tarts when it's someone else's arse," is how the Argentine President explains free-market economics...
08.01.2025
The money has run outVoters don't want to accept it and politicians don't want to admit it...
28.12.2024
Justin Trudeau’s death throesDid Trump bring down Trudeau with a single social media post?...
26.12.2024
The real lockdown casualty was scienceJay Bhattacharya must undo the damage that scientific panjandrums inflicted on themselves in 2020...
20.12.2024
Ukraine marks the end of the Pax AmericanaTrump can walk away from Ukraine, but he cannot walk away from the consequences of walking away...
14.12.2024
Will the US hand China the most important base in the Indo-Pacific region?Labour's deal with Mauritius is already falling apart, and the US can deliver the coup de grâce...
10.12.2024
The Democrats no longer care about winningWokery has destroyed the Dems, and will destroy Labour...
28.11.2024
The dream is overInstead of other countries aspiring to be more like America, America has become more like everywhere else...
18.11.2024
Britain and America always have their timing wrongA free trade agreement should have happened long ago, but we are the Rhett and Scarlett of international commerce...
08.11.2024
It should be called destructionismProtectionism hurts everyone - not least its intended beneficiaries...
04.11.2024
America’s godawful choiceOne candidate was disqualified by policy, the other by personality...
24.10.2024
Who knew the Aztecs were woke?The row between Spain and Mexico shows the absurdities into which victim politics lead us...
20.10.2024
Neither US party seems to want to winThe anti-Trumpers were there for the asking, had anyone made the effort...
12.10.2024
Losing the AmericasThe weakness of the US in Venezuela is noted around the region - and beyond...
29.09.2024
Germany’s far right is backOne thing is driving the populist surge across Europe - crime...
25.09.2024
Keep the hereditary peersAt least until you have something better to put in their place...
13.09.2024
The Cold War isn’t over; it isn’t even coldFrom Nicaragua to Syria, old alliances still hold...
09.09.2024
Don’t sulk about Kamala - dump TrumpIt's not "a coup" to dump an unelectable candidate; Republicans should try it...
29.08.2024
Two-Tier KeirLet's hope the new crackdown signals a more general readiness to punish disorder...
17.08.2024
Only regime change can save VenezuelaAre we going to let autocracy claim country after country?...
08.08.2024
America is now literally governed by DEILefties openly admit that Kamala is a diversity hire, but get furious when anyone else says so...
30.07.2024
Elegy for the Grand Old PartyThe Republican Party had a great run before being displaced by this monstrosity...
26.07.2024
Did smartphones kill democracy?Our screen-addled age is impatient, infantile and prone to conspiracy theories...
14.07.2024
American democracy can’t take much moreThe Supreme Court, notionally the referee, is now wholly divided along party lines...
06.07.2024
Don’t worry about AIAll new technologies are decried as job-destroyers, but it is never true...
30.06.2024
Is Nigel Farage our Donald Trump?Followers are expected constantly to readjust their opinions to suit their leader, while pouring invective at everyone else...
24.06.2024
Lockdown omertàHalf the world is voting right now, but no country is talking about the single biggest issue...
12.06.2024
Trump will end up joining Pacific trade pactCPTPP is the most effective way to contain China's ambitions...
08.06.2024
The cynicism of D-DayWe moved in one generation from "The Longest Day" to "Saving Private Ryan"...
28.05.2024
When did the world start going backwards?Was it the financial crisis, mass immigration, screen addiction or something else?...
24.05.2024
When the fall is all there is, it mattersIf Rishi Sunak must go down, it will be on his own terms, as a patriot who did his best...
22.05.2024
After this, the UN has no place in GazaWhoever takes over the territory, there needs to be a policy of re-education, and that cannot happen through UNRWA...
14.05.2024
The revolution will be cateredCampus radicalism is nothing new, but this self-absorbed whining can only have come from the smartphone generation...
10.05.2024
Rwanda is an ideal destination30 years after the worst genocide of the late 20th century, the country is booming...
04.05.2024
Revenge is by definition pointlessIt cannot right whatever wrong you have suffered, though it seems to be hardwired into our genome...
26.04.2024
Don’t ban TikTokIt's a dreadful app, and the Chinese government is even more dreadful, but bans are never the answer...
14.04.2024
Don’t change your rules at the demand of people who hate youFree association is the basis of a free society - and that includes the Garrick Club...
05.04.2024
The Republicans’ bad conscienceMike Pence stands for the principles and ethics that all Republicans used to extol. No wonder they hate him...
27.03.2024
The single biggest shift in US politicsNon-white voters are deserting the Dems in droves...
12.03.2024
The ugly tradition of Leftist anti-SemitismWhat we are seeing now is not new, but part of a tradition stretching back to Karl Marx...
04.03.2024
Multiculturalism or democracy - pick oneFor Parliament to alter its procedures under threat of violence was a new low...
28.02.2024
More elderly leaders, please!Spare us from young thrusters with high testosterone and things to prove...
20.02.2024
And after Trump?Despite everything, there are encouraging signs that the Republicans still believe in free enterprise...
11.02.2024
Is “settler colonialism” really a white thing?West Papua, Iraqi Kurdistan, Western Sahara, Matabeleland, Chittagong Hills, Xinjiang - no whites involved...
02.02.2024
Diversity training does more harm than goodWhen using an inappropriate word is treated as blasphemy rather than discourtesy, something has gone badly wrong...
26.01.2024
Americans are letting us downWhat would Trump have to do to put off his supporters? Run for a third term? Dissolve Congress? Expel a state from the Union?...
18.01.2024
The more we vote, the less we changeMore people will cast ballots in 2024 than in any previous year, yet democracy is in retreat worldwide...
14.01.2024
Is the woke madness finally lifting?Claudine Gay is right that she is a pawn in a bigger culture war - though perhaps not in the way she thinks...
06.01.2024
Is the Atlantic alliance on its last legs?Donald Trump may be an Anglophile, but he has never cared for the values that Nato exists to defend...
02.01.2024
With friends like these who needs Yemenis?The Houthis are a nasty bunch but, like the Taliban, will not be easily eradicated...
