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America’s Summer of Discontent, 250 years ago
In the summer of 1774, large numbers of American colonists, from Massachusetts Bay down to the Virginia Tidewater, were disaffected…
How long has Hollywood been out of ideas?
Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès made more than 500 films in his career, but 1896 was a banner year for the Frenchman. He…
If Trump or Biden actually cared about America, they would step aside
I’ve written ad nauseam about how much I hate this election, about how Trump-Biden 2.0 is even more demoralizing than…
Who is behind the Elon Musk-backed America PAC?
Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk announced after Saturday’s assassination attempt against Donald Trump that he would donate $45 million…
Starmer accuses Tories of ‘dereliction of duty’
Keir Starmer used his press conference at the end of the European Political Community summit to further cement his narrative…
The Horizon scandal shows how badly Britain is run
The Post Office inquiry has shed an unflattering light on the inner workings of Whitehall, a hermetically sealed world in…
Joe Biden, naked emperor
Sometimes, a fairytale provides the best description of a real-world crisis. That’s true of President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline. The…
Pat McFadden and Ed Davey probed at Post Office Inquiry
At what point does a minister decide they are being lied to? That was the question Pat McFadden and Ed…
The intellectual journey of JD Vance
For someone who is not yet 40, the path JD Vance walked to become the next potential vice president of…
Waste not want not
Alexandria, Virginia I sit on bathtub’s edge, back spasming, left leg numb, inner cheek bitten raw — pain that must…
How one bad scene can ruin an otherwise great movie
Can one egregiously bad scene ruin an otherwise great movie? When I go on an early 1970s jag — revisiting…
The era of ideological, overreaching and omnipresent government
It was a law of classical political philosophy that democratic polities devolve inevitably into tyrannical ones. This law is being…
Should Olympians be paid?
The Olympics are the pinnacle of athletic achievement, a global stage where the very best compete for ultimate glory. With…
Why New York is a city built on the written word
When I visited New York for the first time in a decade recently, one of its most famous living writers,…
Unplugging in the Western Ghats
“Is that the one where they put a tube… up?” I asked, gesturing to the ceiling. “Yes, ma’am,” Dr. Arun…
A tale of two safaris
To grasp the untamed vastness of Samburu County, it’s necessary to get high. Above the thickets of acacia trees, thorny…
Going ham in Andalusia
In Spain you can eat all day — and we did. Earlier in the summer, I spent two days in…
What’s behind all the buzz about non-alcoholic beer?
There’s nothing quite like the third swig of a gin and tonic at the end of a long summer’s day.…
Pavlova: a dessert inspired by the Dying Swan
Pastry chef Alistair Wise says never to make pavlova on a rainy day. “Just forget about it,” he advises. And…
Outdoor wines for the summer
There are some cramped, unimaginative people who — I have been told — maintain that writing about wine is a…
Why is James Madison so consistently forgotten?
James Madison is consistently forgotten. Admittedly, many of the Founding Fathers are forgotten. The average American could probably name two…
Ursula von der Leyen only cares about power
The Green New Deal will be watered down. There will be a drive to roll back rules and regulations. And…
Will Keir Starmer’s EU ‘reset’ pay off?
Keir Starmer is at Blenheim Palace today for the gathering of the European Political Community, the forum created by Emmanuel…
Keir Starmer is deluding himself about the EU
‘We cannot let the challenges of the recent past define our relationships of the future,’ declared the Prime Minister ahead…
Watch: David Lammy refuses to apologise for calling Trump a ‘sociopath’
David Lammy is in the firing line over comments he made in the past about Donald Trump. The Foreign Secretary…
