If you need to hold a summit, Paris comes highly recommended: since the peace conference which produced the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, there have been at least four similar major meetings in the French capital. It was natural enough, then, that European leaders responded to President Emmanuel Macron’s invitation and converged on Paris on […]
Since his inauguration as US President, Donald Trump has not wasted any time upsetting the applecart. Within days, federal aid had been paused to ensure spending matched the administration’s agenda. Further actions include the freeze on hiring federal employees and the creation of the Department of Government Efficiency, otherwise known by its acronym, DOGE. The […]
Donald Trump might take this as a compliment, but he resembles two very different pursuits: Wagner and red-deer stalking in the Scottish highlands. In both cases, nobody is indifferent. Some find themselves addicted: others repelled. The same is true of Trump. His supporters revel in MAGA. His opponents believe that the Oval Office has been […]
The US has imposed a 10% tariff on Chinese goods and a 25% levy on Mexican and Canadian goods will come into force in a month. Tariffs on the EU are also in the pipeline at a rate still to be determined. The governments of the targeted countries are planning retaliatory tariffs against the US, […]
Donald Trump’s inauguration as President of the United States last month was rich in symbolism. One of the most striking images was the parade of ultra-rich technology entrepreneurs who had declared their support for him. Most prominent was Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and named by Trump as head of the Department of Government Efficiency, […]
With a healthy majority in Parliament, what’s stopping Britain’s Government from enacting the kind of sweeping policy changes we’re seeing in the United States? Michael Binyon from The Times and the National Review Institute’s Dominic Pino share their insights, plus: will tariffs force Putin’s hand in Ukraine? And how can we restore consumer optimism in […]
The effects of Donald Trump’s return to the Oval Office are already being felt at His Majesty’s Treasury. On inauguration day, President Trump signed an executive order instructing his government to ‘notify the OECD [Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development] that any commitments made by the prior administration on behalf of the United States with […]
What a week. Donald Trump has returned to the White House promising a new golden age for America, and issued a blizzard of executive orders that are shaking both America’s domestic order and the international system. In Britain, meanwhile, Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer have leaned into their pro-growth rhetoric: promising to expand Heathrow, tackle […]
The United Nations celebrates its 80th anniversary this year. We have got used to it as part of the furniture of global diplomacy and come to assume it will always be with us. But the next four years could prove especially challenging for it. I wonder if it will survive a second term of Donald […]
Can Britain strike a deal with President Trump and avoid the looming tariff trap? Why are leaders in the UK and the US falling short of the so-called “Reagan test”? And, could the UK be on the cusp of creating its own billion-pound tech titan? Join Douglas Carswell from the Mississippi Centre for Public Policy, […]
The unthinkable has come to pass. The new President has burst through the frontiers of credulity. Donald Trump says that he wants a revolution based on common sense. That has always been a much more elusive quality than its advocates may realise, and no one ever had the Donald down as one of its exemplars. […]
Donald Trump is back. Depending on your disposition, that sentence may fill you with feelings of dread or triumph. The implications of Trump’s comeback on immigration, the economy, the war in Ukraine and myriad other issues are highly unpredictable due to the President’s variable temperament and political positioning. But one thing is clear – Trump’s […]
Inauguration Day is here again, and what a difference four years makes. Trump is back, and Trump’s version of conservatism looks like it has a future in a way that once seemed unimaginable. On Inauguration Day four years ago, I had just moved to America. Back then, it was Britain’s conservatism that looked like the […]
An earlier version of this essay was published in Discourse Magazine. The once-warm relationship between the United States and Canada has cooled in the past decade. But despite harsh rhetoric on both sides of the border these days, things are well positioned for a major reset. Indeed, the rightward shift in Washington and the coming move […]
As Los Angeles burns, with ten dead and over 10,000 homes destroyed, a deeper story emerges about how well-intentioned red tape has turned a natural disaster into a regulatory catastrophe. The fires raging through Pacific Palisades and beyond aren’t just revealing the physical vulnerability of California’s hillside communities – they’re exposing the fundamental weakness of […]
The decorations are down. The last strains of ‘Tidings of comfort and joy’ are no longer audible. Instead, it is the season for the Massacre of the Innocents and the Flight into Egypt. There is a good old Scottish phrase to mark the end of a festival and the return to normal life: ‘back to […]
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