For its hosts, this World Cup has already delivered on its PR potential.
England’s game is America’s, for now. But the Qatar World Cup shows that no undisputed set of values can unite us all.
The absurd spectacle of a tiny Gulf petrostate hosting the world’s premier tournament reveals the ugly side of “the beautiful game.”
This comeback attempt proved abortive, but it revealed a will to power fully intact. Rishi Sunak had better watch out.
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.
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.
Even by British traditions of political failure, this prime minister’s brief tenure has been a spectacular disaster.
Charles III is far more interested in the benefits of traditional English hedgerows than the great, global glory of Britain.
The paradox of Elizabeth II’s reign was that in presiding over a shrinking empire, she became a modern global monarch.
The conundrum facing America’s allies is how to cope with a great imperial power in decline that is still a great imperial power.
In their vying claims to Iron Lady nostalgia, the leadership contenders reveal a Tory party struggling for coherence and renewed purpose.
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.
David Trimble leaves a tremendous legacy, but politics passed him by.
Being in London this week has been like having your home teleported somewhere else.
The country does not escape its various political crises despite its constitution. It escapes these crises because of it.
Boris Johnson achieved almost nothing except for one very big thing: Brexit.
His most senior ministers are getting off the carousel of chaos because they just don’t see him governing the country.
The great paradox in the world today is that the “dumb simplicity” of America’s self-perception is both obviously bogus and fundamentally true.
In a narrow but important sense, the world has become more amenable to the former president. And yet.
Britain has taken back control but has yet to exercise much of it.