January 20, 2020

How Brexit broke up the ‘special relationship’ Trump's weakening of our military alliance is part of a long-term trend — but Brexit and Iraq accelerated it

Mike Martin

17.01

The New York Times’ bizarre campaign against Britain America's most prestigious paper keeps producing laughably inaccurate pieces presenting the UK as a racist hellhole

Douglas Murray

14.01

In defence of Facebook There are problems with Zuckerberg's monopolistic intentions, but breaking up his company could do more harm than good

Christopher Rhodes

10.01

What can we expect from 2020 politics? Donald Trump will win, national populism will continue apace and the Green movement will grow

Matthew Goodwin

10.01

Why Schitt’s Creek is a parable for the good life If you lost everything you ever valued, how would you find meaning?

Libby Emmons

08.01

How Trump handed victory to Qasem Soleimani The killing of the Iranian general has polarised the Iraqi Shia against America — and ceded martyrdom to a murderer

Maurice Glasman

02.01

Where will Boris Johnson lead us? Come 2029, the former United Kingdom will be consumed by a new dilemma

James Kirkup

02.01

America has always been a circus Kurt Anderson's <I>Fantasyland</i> explores the US tendency to blur fact with fiction

Justin Webb

30.12

So did ‘idiot voters’ get it wrong? 'False consciousness' has always been a popular explanation for Left-wing electoral failure

Tom Chivers

26.12

2017: when the US woke up to its drugs shame The decline of the American dream was perfectly illustrated by addicts dying in their thousands

Ian Birrell

25.12

2016: the Great Pivot Year Our correspondent imagines what future generations will make of the year western society turned on its axis

David Goodhart

24.12

2015 was a warm-up for the liberal Ragnarök Just when the political establishment thought they were safe, it all went horribly wrong

Peter Franklin