Tom McTague
He is a co-author of Betting the House: The Inside Story of the 2017 Election, and is working on a new book about the history of Britain’s euroskeptic revolution called Conquest: The Fracturing of Britain.
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Fabrice Coffrini / Getty Qatar Won
For its hosts, this World Cup has already delivered on its PR potential.
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Marc Atkins / Getty Empires of Soccer
England’s game is America’s, for now. But the Qatar World Cup shows that no undisputed set of values can unite us all.
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic The Qatar World Cup Exposes Soccer’s Shame
The absurd spectacle of a tiny Gulf petrostate hosting the world’s premier tournament reveals the ugly side of “the beautiful game.”
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Ben Pruchnie / Getty Boris Johnson Is Still Afloat
This comeback attempt proved abortive, but it revealed a will to power fully intact. Rishi Sunak had better watch out.
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic Britain’s Guilty Men and Women
Liz Truss was just the latest. For the past dozen years, each leader has left the country poorer, weaker, and more divided than the last.
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Getty; The Atlantic Don’t Blame Brexit
How tempting it is to trace Liz Truss’s economic fiasco to the decision to leave Europe. If only Britain’s malaise were that simple.
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic; Getty The Liz Truss Travesty Becomes Britain’s Humiliation
Even by British traditions of political failure, this prime minister’s brief tenure has been a spectacular disaster.
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Max Mumby / Indigo / Getty The Hobbit King
Charles III is far more interested in the benefits of traditional English hedgerows than the great, global glory of Britain.
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Bettmann / Getty The Queen of the World
The paradox of Elizabeth II’s reign was that in presiding over a shrinking empire, she became a modern global monarch.
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Pablo Delcan What America’s Great Unwinding Would Mean for the World
The conundrum facing America’s allies is how to cope with a great imperial power in decline that is still a great imperial power.
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Getty; The Atlantic For Britain’s Tories, the Answer Is Always Margaret Thatcher
In their vying claims to Iron Lady nostalgia, the leadership contenders reveal a Tory party struggling for coherence and renewed purpose.
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John J. Custer Why Britain Changed Its China Stance
The cycles of London’s engagement with Beijing reveal how the U.S.’s ability to keep allies in line for its great-power competition is weakening.
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Robert McNeely / White House / Getty The Work of Giants Crumbles
David Trimble leaves a tremendous legacy, but politics passed him by.
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Raphael Neal / Redux England Can’t Take the Heat
Being in London this week has been like having your home teleported somewhere else.
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Getty / The Atlantic Ignore the Chaos. Britain’s System Is Working.
The country does not escape its various political crises despite its constitution. It escapes these crises because of it.
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Carl Court / Getty The Worst, Best Prime Minister
Boris Johnson achieved almost nothing except for one very big thing: Brexit.
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Jakub Porzycki / NurPhoto / Getty The Game Is (Probably) Up for Boris Johnson
His most senior ministers are getting off the carousel of chaos because they just don’t see him governing the country.
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Ben Hickey America’s Necessary Myth for the World
The great paradox in the world today is that the “dumb simplicity” of America’s self-perception is both obviously bogus and fundamentally true.
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The Atlantic; Getty The Accidental Trumpification of NATO
In a narrow but important sense, the world has become more amenable to the former president. And yet.
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John J. Custer Britain’s Unbridgeable Divide
Britain has taken back control but has yet to exercise much of it.
