North America
Samantha Power
Obama’s Dublin-born foreign policy adviser doesn’t like Israel and may wreck Hillary Clinton’s work
Sounds Familiar
The common ground between fine poetry and populist political rhetoric is small, and Maya Angelou has not found it
An American in Fulham
‘Dempsey’s late equaliser caused a drowsy American to rise from his sacred couch and send his voice skyward, filled with pure exultation’
Clint Takes us for a Ride
Eastwood’s Gran Torino ticks all the boxes of a stereotypical immigration-is-good film
Keeping Faith
‘Having banished the West’s Judaeo-Christian heritage, we are now investing the advent of Barack Obama with a quasi-messianic significance that no American president can possibly fulfill’
His Master’s Angry Voice
A disciple of Ayatollah Khomeini’s apocalyptic ideology, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is about to turn Iran into a nuclear rogue state
Blown Up in Bin Laden Country
Is Pakistani intelligence allowing the country’s tribal areas to become a Taliban stronghold? What can the West do about it?
Welcome to Miami
‘Having climbed halfway up a lamppost, a homeless guy in a pink skirt and a low-cut white blouse starts to hump it’
Amoral Equivalence
Beyond Terror and Martyrdom by Gilles Kepel
The Case Against Israel’s Enemies by Alan Dershowitz
Why Remoaners should back Boris
“Boris, ironically, now offers Remoaners the best chance of a soft Brexit, or at least a sensible one. And to those who want a second referendum—’the people’s vote’—there may even be a chance of that too.”
On the road
“In the summer of 1980, in the grip of some Kerouac-ish fantasy, I opted to hitch-hike from Laredo to New York”
Discovering the Great War of China
A third of a million Chinese labourers helped the Allies defeat the Kaiser, but their huge unsung contribution ended in betrayal