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 […]
British politics is suddenly dominating conversation on X for all the wrong reasons. Tech titans like Elon Musk have stumbled onto the grooming-gangs scandal – a series of truly horrifying crimes that were downplayed or ignored by various authorities, in part because of fears about anti-Muslim backlash. Musk, Bill Ackman and other Americans are lighting […]
Out of the myriad reasons that have been offered for why a second Donald Trump administration will be unique (there has been no shortage of punditry on this), the most powerful is that Trumpism has outgrown Trump. The MAGA movement has been steadily growing not just numerically, but also in the influence and scope of […]
In the grand theatre of US politics, a new act has taken the stage, and it’s one that could either be a masterclass in efficiency or a huge payday for entrepreneurs wanting to sell eggs to angry mobs. The Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, will be led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. They […]
‘How are you, Phil?’ asked a colleague on the morning of November 6, as I made my way into work at the English department of my university in Tokyo. I was a little taken aback, as it was someone I didn’t normally interact with, especially on first name terms, and had been said with what […]
Donald Trump is returning to the White House. Whatever you think of him, it has been an unprecedented political recovery, delivering the largest Republican victory since the 1980s. For a party which faces its own difficult fightback, there are lessons British Conservatives can learn from the President’s victory. But this cannot be a copy-and-paste job. […]
Imagine. It is twenty years ago, and you are an aspirant political novelist. So you do some drafting and take your efforts to a publisher. Your two principal characters are a prime minister resembling Boris Johnson and a US president: a dead ringer for Donald Trump. Arriving full of optimism, your meeting is brief, and […]
In 2020, when she was then Secretary of State for International Trade, Liz Truss went to Washington D.C. to meet with President Donald Trump as part of the UK government’s negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between our two countries and to also tackle a few trade disputes. We sent Truss off with a […]
It’s official. Elon Musk, along with biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, has been announced by Donald Trump as the head of DOGE – ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ – a body advising the White House and the Office of Management and Budget from outside government, with a plan to ‘dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful […]
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