US Politics

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“While no longer accepting any special responsibility on the world stage, Obama pretends that we are all citizens together. Like Hamlet the President soliloquises; he does not act”

‘Obama found it easier to perform the role of critical intellectual than commander-in-chief’

Three years away from the Presidential election, the Democrat and Republican candidates are already having a tilt at the Oval Office

‘When the leaders of China and the US met in June, one was accused of serious civil liberties violations, the seizure of journalists’ phone and email records and the use of state tax authorities to harass citizens. The other was Xi Jinpeng’

The New York Times columnist, despite her transatlantic celebrity, no longer knows how far to go in her puerile cattiness

‘Without stop-and-search, Kelly estimates that he would need an extra 50,000 officers to police the city because people who don’t run the risk of being searched start carrying guns’

Critics like to think that neoconservative ideas lie buried in the sands of Iraq. But neocons are still in the mainstream of US politics

Until recently I hadn’t needed the help of the NHS. Prostate Cancer has made it an important part of my life

There is a truth at the heart of his controversial comments about my antecedent which Niall Ferguson does not need to apologise for