Just over a week ago, a strange thing happened. As a matter of course, I receive an email from the New Statesman, a long-established organ of the…

Donald Trump met with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, at the White House on 27 August. The declared…

As I write, there is a flotilla of boats heading for Gaza. One of the passengers is Greta Thunberg. Intense publicity accompanied the climate…

In the summer of 2024, during a campaign stop in West Palm Beach, Florida, Trump addressed his ‘beautiful’ Christians. He assured them that he too…

It would be an understatement to say that Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has been irritating a lot of people just lately. He’s been doing so…

As Donald Trump’s victory in the US election became clear, Elon Musk shared a meme of himself carrying a large porcelain sink into the Oval Office…

Back in 2018, soon after Donald Trump moved the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Benjamin Netanyahu came to Washington in a buoyant mood…

It’s one of the staples of television news to show punch-ups in parliamentary settings. These days, such scenes are as common as natural disasters…

One of the very first actions taken by the incoming Labour government was the scrapping of the previous administration’s Rwanda policy. The…

When Sotheby’s, the great auction house, hosted its first major retrospective of Saudi art last month in London, the Saudi ambassador was present and…