Category: Politics

  • 25/03/2025
    Worthwhile Canadian Observations - Paul Krugman I don’t know what set Trump off on Canada, what made him think that…
  • 10/03/2025
    Trump is making Europe great again As one leading French businessman put it to me, with more than a touch…
  • 27/02/2025
    Timothy Garton Ash writing in the Guardian. Warning: compound noun! The biggest German brake of all is a state of…
  • 23/02/2025
    Nation at a crossroads: a reading guide to the 2025 German election Some comments on an FT article by Paul…
  • 20/02/2025
    I don’t usually do politics with a capital ‘P’ here, although it wouldn’t take much reading to guess how I…
  • 12/02/2025
    The case for persisting with foreign aid It is disgusting to read the boast of the world’s richest man that…
  • 06/02/2025
    Civil servants will need to work efficiently or face redundancy under new rules | Civil service | The Guardian In…
  • 08/07/2024
    Left-behind Britain From a review of Paul Collier’s latest book (Left Behind: A New Economics for Neglected Places) in the…
  • 12/04/2024
    The State of the UK Two adjacent stories today Carer convicted over benefit error worth 30p a week fights to…
  • 07/11/2023
    Departure time 2023, arrival 1943 Timothy Garton Ash in the NYRB When I started writing my book Homelands: A Personal…