World
Meet the anti-immigrant federalist who could well be Italy’s next prime minister
The man who could become Italy’s next prime minister is sat just opposite the entrance to the huge US and…
Meghan Marxist!
The wedding of Meghan Markle to Prince Harry has no precedent in the history of the Royal family. How will…
Expect the Eurozone to go bananas over Italy’s election
I’ve been hearing disturbing but well-informed voices about the result of the election in Italy, the Eurozone’s third biggest economy,…
Why Trump’s ‘trade war’ makes strategic sense
Has Donald Trump sparked off a trade war? His plans for a 25 percent tariff on steel imports and 10…
Italians aren’t fascists. They’re angry about immigration
Ravenna Amid relentless propaganda about Italy being in the grip of fascism, Italians go to the polls on Sunday. It…
What is Putin’s endgame in Syria?
Familiar, depressing images emerge from Ghouta in Syria: rows of tiny white shrouds, children killed in relentless airstrikes, makeshift hospitals,…
Rolling tanks, plastic flowers and madness on parade: A visit to North Korea
As Kim Jong-un might blow up the world next year, if not this, and people are forever trying to work…
The lesson of the Berlin Wall: capitalism works
It is now 28 years and three months since the Wall came down. For Europeans and Americans, this is a…
America’s involvement in the Yemen war is unconstitutional — and stupid
Only very rarely in today’s Washington, D.C. is a cause so strong that it brings together America’s most famous progressive…
Beppe Grillo and the Italian art of digital populism
A couple of years back, while writing my book Radicals, I secured an interview with Beppe Grillo, leader of the…
Justin Trudeau’s Captain Snowflake tour of India
If your week was less than fun, spare a thought for Justin Trudeau. The Canadian Prime Minister’s seven-day visit to…
Angela Merkel has created Germany’s far-right
Bankruptcy, wrote Ernest Hemingway, happens in two ways — ‘gradually and then suddenly’. By now, Angela Merkel will be beginning…
After Zuma: what next for South Africa?
In recent years, living in South Africa has been a bit like having cancer. The malaise eating us from within…
The majesty of Vienna
Two things always strike me when I visit Vienna. The first is how easterly the city lies. This was more…
Violent crime in Sweden is soaring. When will politicians act?
January was a particularly violent month in Sweden. A 63-year-old man was killed in Stockholm by a hand grenade lying…
What is Marion Le Pen doing in America?
The news that Marion Maréchal-Le Pen will share a stage this week with US conservatives, addressing the annual Conservative Political…
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…
Does international aid do more harm than good?
What a scandal for our times. Oxfam, that upholder of modern-day virtue, unassailable in its righteousness, buried for seven years…
The conservative case against Catalonia’s separatist narrative
Daniel Hannan has written, compellingly and eloquently as usual, about the constitutional crisis taking place in my country, Spain. In…
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…
Sharia law and the relative mercies of French justice
For many years, the grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Tariq Ramadan, has been one of my closest…
China vs America: the espionage story of our time
Why aren’t spy stories sexy anymore? The revelations last year that Beijing destroyed America’s espionage ring inside China a few years ago,…
Don’t forget Iran’s rebels
If there is one lesson the world should have learned from Iran’s ‘Green Revolution’ of 2009 and the so-called Arab…
The green lobby’s energy obsession is harming the world’s poorest
Access to an abundance of clean water has been pivotal for the public health miracle that has taken place in rich…
Putin’s great soccer game
Authoritarian regimes love grand international sporting events. There’s something about the mass regimentation, the set-piece spectacle, the old-fashioned idea of…
