Donald Trump is confused about whether the United States has “won” his war on Iran or not. It almost certainly hasn’t. It’s hard to know if you have won if you don’t know what winning looks like. And ...

Four-fifths of Brits value quiet time, according to a 2023 national noise report by Quiet Mark, a noise certification ...

The Reform leader only ever wanted to bring the same brand of transgressive populism to these shores. But after the midterms, ...

American voters delivered a huge rebuke to President Trump and a politics of division, inflation and corruption ...

After nearly 25 years I am home in northern California, toggling between tenses, trying to work out how to be here now ...

Liberal institutions won’t stop the extreme, illiberal right. But perhaps they’ll be saved by the new politics that is taking ...

Israel’s election results have so far been as fractured as expected, but so far there appears to be an opportunity to remove ...

Last summer I was invited to take part in two small private events attended by many US, European and Asian billionaires, some worth many tens of billions. The events were fun and stimulating, and many ...

The offending book was an edition of Mao Zedong’s speeches collected and published by the eminent sinologist, the late Stuart ...

Centrism used to be such a nice word. Cast your mind back to the 1990s, when Bill Clinton championed the “vital center” and Tony Blair’s Third Way was electorally unstoppable. In the afterglow of the ...

Historians will debate for ever and a day why the second Donald Trump government was so much more extreme than his first. So extreme that Trump’s second term, if unchecked, could launch a revolution ...