Barack Obama
What Romans would have made of Obama's Syria strategy
President Obama was assailed for saying that the USA had no strategy on combating Isis. Vegetius (late 4th century AD), the…
The brutal truth? Britain lacks the reach to bring any ISIS killer to justice
Politicians’ promises to bring those who murder British hostages to justice almost never come true
Henry Kissinger interview: ‘I don’t see the wisdom there once was’
Henry Kissinger on statesmanship from Richelieu to Obama
Violence, fear, confusion: this is what comes into a leadership vacuum
The old cliché that ‘nothing happens in August’ has again been brutally disproved. From the centenary of the outbreak of…
Hillary Clinton’s autobiography seems destined to join her husband’s - in a bin marked ‘Free’
Last year a Washington-based journalist called Mark Leibovich wrote This Town, a book whose thesis was, roughly, that Washington-based journalists…
Paul Johnson’s diary: Boris would make a great PM – but he must strike now
I feel an intense antipathy for Vladimir Putin. No one on the international scene has aroused in me such dislike…
Portrait of the week
Home The British economy grew by 0.8 per cent in the first quarter of 2014, disappointing hotheads who’d expected 1 per cent. It…
When Taki met Al Sharpton
New York This is a tale of two escape artists in one city. Let’s start with my old friend the…
Hillary, Obama, Osama — and a hapless Bill
The actor David Niven was once badgered by the American columnist William F. Buckley to introduce him to Marc Chagall,…
The Iran deal just shows how badly Obama has failed
He wasn’t the first president to promise to bend the arc of history. And he won’t be the last to fail
