The new identity politics is conservative
Celebrity opinion, that awful juggernaut, is beginning to shift. It could take another 30 years before we see any great…
Bombs away: Trump and Macron’s bromance is getting serious
Remember the never-ending handshake? It was 14 July 2017, Bastille Day, and Emmanuel Macron and Donald Trump opened their formal…
On foreign policy, Trump is more like Obama than he would like to admit
Both presidents are easily led into conflicts that go against their better instincts
A trade war with China sounds terrifying – but the US is doing the right thing
Nobody likes the sound of trade war, and rightly so. China’s new retaliatory tariffs against US products feel like the…
Revealed: Cambridge Analytica and the passport king
The Cambridge Analytica story is full of hot air. Everybody delights in talking about how scary Facebook is, and lots…
Did Trump appoint John Bolton to distract from his spending bill failure?
Another massive America news blizzard yesterday: Trump lawyer quits, tariffs tariffs tariffs, stock-market slide, former alleged mistresses of the President…
Cambridge Analytica’s use of Facebook is straight from Obama’s playbook
Every few weeks, it seems, Carole Cadwalladr drops a long piece for the Guardian or the Observer about how the…
Meet Boris Titov: the man who wouldn’t be president
Boris Titov is running to be president of Russia, but he’s eager to talk himself out of the job. ‘I…
Rex Tillerson’s sacking isn’t about Russia
Sometimes it’s almost as if Donald Trump wants the world to think he’s a Russian patsy. Yesterday, Rex Tillerson, as…
No, Britain shouldn’t invoke Article 5 of the NATO treaty
British Prime Minister Theresa May might regret using such strong language in her statement on the Skripal poisoned spy case…
What can Britain do to punish Russia? Not much
Here is an idea as to how we Brits can respond to Russia over the poison spy case. It’s the…
Surprise, surprise — here comes the tariffs retreat
We should by now be used to Trump’s modus operandi. But we aren’t. We should all know the art of…
1,2,3,4 — Trump declares a trade war
‘Whatever complicates the world more — I do,’ Donald Trump once said. As President, that still seems to be his…
Trump loses 4th spin doctor as Hope Hicks quits
Every week is extraordinary in the Trump administration — but this week seems stranger than most. Matters are rumbling in…
Is Jared Kushner’s power really waning?
It was always ridiculous that Jared Kushner, an amiable 37-year-old who had no diplomatic, political or military experience, should have…
The unstoppable gun reform lobby
He did not address how he might respond to the inevitable debate that will now consume America over the legality…
The majesty of Vienna
Two things always strike me when I visit Vienna. The first is how easterly the city lies. This was more…
My trip to Pakistan’s ‘Jihadi Disneyland’
Not so long ago, Barack Obama called Waziristan ‘the most dangerous place in the world’. It was the losing front…
Boris Titov doesn’t want to be president but he’s still taking on Putin
Boris Titov is running to be president of Russia, but he’s eager to talk himself out of the job. ‘I…
Trump’s sunbed optimism is rubbing off on the world
Donald J Trump’s State of the Union was as expected: long, boastful, cheesy — and largely right. Trump says he…
Donald Trump (sort of) says the hardest word
Wow. As far as I know, Donald Trump has only apologised twice since he emerged as a presidential candidate in…
Brexit Britain is putty in Trump’s hands
President Donald Trump, famously, has two modes: flattery and hostility. Theresa May had a taste of the latter following Trump’s…
How seriously should we take this new pro-Trump conspiracy theory?
What if the great smoking gun in the Trump-Russia enquiry is not Donald Trump’s collusion with the Kremlin? What if the…
US government shutdown: Trump’s presidency begins to resemble Obama’s
Donald Trump had hoped to mark his first anniversary as president basking in surprisingly positive media headlines and enjoying a…
Trump, May, and the sinking of the so-called ‘Special Relationship’
Another week, another blow to the so-called Special Relationship. The latest sorry news is that Number 10 has been trying…
