The Trump Shrug and why Republicans love it
The Trump Shrug: arms apart, hands open, palms up or facing the audience, followed by a slight raise of his shoulders. He adopts it so…
December 2015
Syria: Bombing, Feeding, And… Planning?
Guest Writer Hamish De Bretton-Gordon asks if humanitarian issues are being submerged under the airstrikes: The world’s unlikely and tenuous military coalition is pounding ISIL…
Prisoners of Geography – The View From America
‘Prisoners’ in America Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall Scribner $26.00, 291 pages Review by Anthony J….
The Republicans pick their wars
The Republican debate finished at 4am in the UK and was hardly the stuff to help keep even the keenest political junkie awake. The evening…
What would Christopher Hitchens have made of the Zadroga debacle?
This week, in 2011, that we lost one of our most perceptive, often profound, occasionally obdurate, but always entertaining commentators. Christopher Hitchens died in Houston,…
Sovereignty – On Stilts
By Tim Marshall Today is the 2nd anniversary of South Korea officially extending its air-defence identification zone (ADIZ) to cover a rarely seen underwater rock….
Worse than the Nazis…
It is a peculiar habit we all share of rating things that are simply unquantifiable. Who was the greatest heavyweight boxer, the most accomplished artist,…
Trump, Fury & Stupidity: A Postscript
David Waywell responds to readers’ comments and Twitter debate about his previous piece criticizing the proposed ban on Donald Trump visiting the UK. I never write…
Stupidity is the last thing we should ever censor
I was waiting at a bus stop in Manchester the other day when a gleaming new Range Rover worth more than my entire existence drove…
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights & The Responsibility To Protect
This week marks the 67th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. ‘The Universal Declaration of Human Rights & The Responsibility To Protect: Pantomime…