Britain

It is not just in Washington that the Epstein files continue to dominate. In Westminster, the political reverberations of the Department of Justice’s investigation are threatening to bring down the British government. At the center of the drama is Peter Mandelson: a former Tony Blair aide who served, until recently, as Our Man in DC. Keir Starmer, the Labour Prime Minister, named him British ambassador to America last year, reasoning that the oleaginous uber-networker could be the nation’s “Trump-whisperer.” But the DoJ’s initial email dump in September exposed the closeness of his relationship with Epstein, with whom he shared a love of power and money. It was revealed that Mandelson

One remarkable thing about Donald Trump’s adventure in Venezuela is just how old-fashioned it is. It is a world away from George W. Bush’s neoconservative efforts at nation-building in Iraq and Afghanistan. There is little attempt to justify the arrest of Nicolás Maduro in terms of the human rights of Venezuelan citizens. Little attention appears to have been paid as to how the country will now be governed. Nor have we heard much more about the drugs crimes of Maduro, other than the admission that he perhaps isn’t, after all, quite the lynchpin of an international criminal racket (for all his other offenses against his own people). With the seizure

The doomed Tory leader may be eyeing a career on the American lecture circuit

The nature of anti-Semitism means that it is ever-present, always under the surface. And it has been allowed to fester in Britain

Politicians shouldn’t be allowed to turn the birthplace of liberty into its charnel house

Britain’s global reputation has taken a knock in recent years – especially in the United States. This is unlikely to help things

British officialdom’s zeal for online regulation is setting it on a collision course with a resurgent and energetic US free-speech lobby

His views are fast becoming the consensus, but people still find obscure reasons to oppose the man himself