John Phelan
No, He Can’t
The people who voted fro Obama to save Medicare and Medicaid are deluding themselves: these programmes won’t be saved by the President’s waffle
Free To Choose
We now live in the world of iDemocracy, according to Douglas Carswell, but unlimited choice in the state sector is unsustainable
A Profligate President
George W. Bush has just published a collection of essays on the financial crisis — if only he’d acted on this wisdom before the event
Overrated: Paul Krugman
The darling of the liberal intelligentsia and Nobel laureate’s plan to end the economic depression would only prolong it
Majority rule; minority rights
It is folly to treat UK race relations as totally divorced from the rest of human experience. We need to look at the larger global picture
American revolutions: Rewriting the language of the unheard
‘Dissenting viewpoints — for example, the belief that America is not an intrinsically racist country—are shunned as further proof of racist pathologies’
The favourites
From Piers Gaveston onwards, controversial courtiers have a long history in British politics.How unusual is Dominic Cummings?