Europe
The EU are desperate to salvage the Iran deal. It isn’t working
American sanctions are forcing companies worldwide to choose between Iran and the US
The nowhere man of the French Left: Jean-Luc Mélenchon
The former darling of the French far left is now a hopeless irrelevance
Why the Ryder Cup is great
The bi-annual clash between Europe and the US is the greatest show in golf
Was Theresa May attacking Trump, or a blond populist closer to home?
The Prime Minister’s UN gambit exposes her as an unreliable, unsuitable partner
Did you hear the one about the anti-Semite in Sweden?
Like many other newly ‘diverse’ societies, Sweden keeps supplying the world with paradox-jokes
Brexit: a beginner’s guide
Americans often ask me ‘what is happening?’ in British politics at the moment. Well, here is my answer...
What is motivating Macron’s self-destructive Brexit position?
A few weeks ago he was talking about defining a new strategic relationship with the UK. What happened?
How Viktor Orbán duped the Brexiteers
Why are members of the old regime so attracted to the police institutions of the new illiberal states?
Can nationalists of the world unite?
Interests, not ideologies, seem to be the driving force behind nationalist movements worldwide
Macron is quick to take on nationalism. What about Islamism?
The Salafists are not only increasing in number, they’re here to stay and there’s little anyone can do about it
Why Steve Bannon’s fireside chat with The Economist is so grimly watchable
It appears that to allow Bannon to make any point (let alone win it) would be to risk the total and utter death of Zanny Minton Beddoes
Boris Johnson summons the spirit of Churchill in Washington DC
‘The last thing we want is for us, the Brits, having made a momentous decision, to be drawn back into the tractor beam of Brussels.’
Selling Europe’s new Muslim vote
Electoral fraud in Botkyrka would have changed the result
Will Sweden pour ‘alcohol on the fire’? Or oust the politicians who struck the match?
Prime Minister Lofven has made a last-ditch effort to scare voters away from the Sweden Democrats
Matteo Salvini is lucky to be the enemy of the Italian justice system
In Italy, it is more often than not a badge of honour to be hounded by an Italian investigating magistrate
Macron vs Salvini: the ideological battle for Europe’s future
Personal antipathy between the two men is turning into a contest for European hearts and minds
The anti-Brexit movement has one big advantage: their opponents are in disarray
Behind the bid to stop Brexit lies a sense of clarity
Sweden’s political panic attack
As violent crime soars, the Sweden Democrats gain support
Fact check: Charlie Kirk’s beloved US-UK violent crime stat
The result may surprise you
Fact check: New York Times’s London foodie ‘knowledge’
You’d think they would have learned after last time...
Why America’s détente with Putin makes Belarus nervous
‘If we don’t survive these years, if we will fail, it means we will have to become part of some other state, or they will simply wipe their feet on us.’
Macron’s summer of discontent
The President of France’s biggest enemy is himself, as his personal style is getting up the noses of many French people
America, meet Tommy Robinson – if you must
The Cary Grant of the alt-right?
Father Morris won’t be the last priest expelled from campus for having the ‘wrong’ beliefs
The chaplain led his parish in a ‘Rosary of reparation for the gross offence to God which is Pride Glasgow’.
Boris Johnson: Why we sent the jihadi Beatles for trial in America
The diary of the former British Foreign Secretary.
