J.D. Vance: proconsul to Britain?
In Britain, as with Washington DC, American leaders are now saving localities from too much self-rule run amok
Britain
Monday
Wednesday
Britain’s foreign secretary faces fine for fishing without a license
Britain’s global reputation has taken a knock in recent years – especially in the United States. This is unlikely to help things
Essex-boy Elegy: J.D. Vance meets the Bosh man
Two netizen allies meet at last
Friday
A global MAGA crusade against web regulation?
We are often – wrongly – told that MAGA is simply a politics of expediency and national self-interest
Wednesday
The UK censorship files: Jim Jordan’s crusade against Britain
British officialdom’s zeal for online regulation is setting it on a collision course with a resurgent and energetic US free-speech lobby
Tuesday
Trumpism rules the world
His views are fast becoming the consensus, but people still find obscure reasons to oppose the man himself
Monday
The Europe of American imaginations no longer exists
It’s America that has quietly raced ahead this century
Friday
Have you ever heard of the St. Brice’s Day Massacre?
Crypt is a collection of seven essays that unearth details about how certain people lived and died in the past
Monday
How Wilfred Owen became a poet
His letters are a deeply moving supplement to his poems
Wednesday
The spy novelist who became an Irish nationalist
Remembering Erskine Childers 100 years later
Sunday
She was the Queen of the West
Elizabeth II was the embodiment of certain Western values close to my heart
Monday
The slumber of the Anglosphere
Can democracy in the West survive its attenuation in the US and UK?
Monday
Europe is more bark than bite on Ukraine
The Continent is still relying on the US for its security
Friday
The ignorance of Queen Elizabeth’s ‘anti-colonialist’ critics
In fact, a figure of such stability was essential to decolonization
She lived her best life
Against the internet’s cult of the self stood Queen Elizabeth II
Friday
‘Oxford or Cambridge?’: the vacation edition
Visiting university towns for a uniquely civilized — and wholly British — experience
Tuesday
American Healthcare versus the British system
Donald Trump recently disparaged Britain’s National Health Service for “going broke and not working,” leading Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt to express his pride in a system “where all get care no matter the size of their bank balance.” But the news has been filled for months with stories of people unable to access care they … Read more
