Free Speech
Free speech is a cornerstone of representative democracy. Abuse of free speech is one of the biggest threats to that cornerstone. This week we have…
Articles by David Waywell
Observations of an Expat: Trump and Conceptual Art
One of the world’s best museums of modern art is the Tate Modern in the monolithic old Bankside power station on the south bank of…
The Trump Doctrine
A doctrine is how a president is forced to operate foreign policy in the reality in which he finds himself. Sometimes, presidents proclaim their own…
NATO Grit Their Teeth
Tough times for NATO. Tough times for any country that has been a long-standing ally of the United States. Donald Trump has touched down in…
So, Why Are We Going To Bomb Syria Again?
This most mercurial of presidents might have issued one of his trademarked about-turns this morning but it now looks inevitable that the US and allies…
Cambridge Analytica, Dirty Tricks, and a Glimmer of Hope
An unexpected glimmer of hope emerged from Channel 4 News’s Cambridge Analytica exposés and the revelation that the company might have been involved in some…
Will He or Won’t He: The “Fire Mueller” Guessing Game
So, here we are: a new week and a new set of weekend presidential tweets to analyse. Judging from what we see, the chances of…
The Problem with Jeremy’s “Sniff”
It has been bothering me for days that Jeremy Corbyn didn’t sniff. Nor, for that matter, did he smile. What he did do was to…
Let’s Talk
It’s time to talk. Nuclear weapons, cyber weapons, drones, robots and rogue nuclear states have combined to move the Doomsday clock to two minutes before…
Fire and Fury – Michael Wolff Blows the White House In
‘Writers are always selling somebody out’. So sayeth Joan Didion in the warning/statement of principle in the Preface of her 1968 collection of journalism Slouching…