Tag: politics

If we truly want to have the best chance at avoiding a second Trump term and maintaining a functional rule of law, it would be prudent to stop focusing on the New York case and instead focus on actual political issues, or even the other cases against the former president.

if the Tories perform better than expected at the general election, it will be because of events that occur between now and then, and not because of the distortive nature of local elections.

“Democracy” covers all that is deemed good, so any regime that wants to increase its legitimacy will bend logical definitions to prove itself.

Steven Pifer greets me at the door with a limp. He’d broken his kneecap en route to Kyiv three weeks ago, and scrambling for...

So it is up to us, as viewers, not to be lulled into complacency by the glamour and spectacle they present.

The War in the Gaza Strip has been going on for over seven months. In this time, it has cost the lives of over...

One of the characteristic features of the 1997 Labour Party general election campaign was their use of D:Ream’s song "Things Can Only Get Better"...

"...the Labour leader is polling nowhere near to his 1997 comparison. The reality, though, is that Starmer doesn’t need to beat Tony Blair: he needs to beat Rishi Sunak."

In Rishi Sunak’s recent Downing Street Interview, his words and promises were certainly not the star of the show. Showing off his Adidas Sambas,...

On Thursday night, the Oxford Union voted in support of the motion ‘This House Believes the EU has a Bright Future.’ The final count...

"Trump coming through these trials and remaining electable would be an indictment and a warning for institutional decay which demands a response."

"Yes, I love flowers and I love landscapes, but I am far away from that. When we talk about political art, I didn’t even...

I have met Liz Truss only once. It was in Oxford Town Hall in November of last year and I had tried (without success)...

"Rwanda still has the chance to be the last line of defence against this policy"