Tom McTague
Tom McTague is a London-based staff writer at The Atlantic, and co-author of Betting the House: The Inside Story of the 2017 Election.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters Leaks Are Changing How Diplomats Talk
In the era of WikiLeaks, hostile-state cyberwarfare, and leaks such as the Darroch incident, the diplomatic cable’s primacy is being threatened, changing the way foreign policy is being conducted.
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Kieran Doherty / Reuters The Search for a Brexit-Era Margaret Thatcher
Forty years after Margaret Thatcher’s era-defining election victory in 1979, Britain once again appears divided and ungovernable, with a decision to make.
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Fine Art Images / Heritage Images / Getty Why the British Take Glory in Defeat
Boris Johnson inadvertently compared Brexit to the massacre of British troops at the Battle of Balaclava in 1854, a defeat immortalized in verse.
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Reuters What the Iran Crisis Reveals About European Power
Without a rival currency, there is none.
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Matt Cardy / Getty The Brexit Catch-22 Driving U.K. Politics Crazy
The race to replace Theresa May as British prime minister has been mired in the same seemingly intractable Brexit riddle that destroyed her premiership—and there’s no obvious way out.
