Little Letterhole: What’s a World Cup without Italy?
WHAT’S A WORLD CUP without Italy? Anyone following the draw today, will have been dismayed to see the four-time worldContinue Reading
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Jamaica? No, they walked out of their own accord
Angela Merkel’s future is in doubt, and the English-speaking media is hysterical. Though unexpected, the events in Germany are far from political Armageddon.
Move the capital to Manchester, and other radical ideas
The serious economic and geographic inequality in the United Kingdom requires innovative solutions. Can we solve our problems with big, radical ideas like moving the capital to Manchester?
Little Letterhole: Kyoto, and the importance of myth
ON 30 MAY 1945, Kyoto was given a reprieve. Three months before the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan’sContinue Reading
Fear, farce, and fake news: The Death of Stalin review
Armando Iannucci’s icily sharp Soviet satire hits all the right notes, and provides a chilling commentary of the absurdity and farce of modern day politics.
Paris Saint-Germain’s date with destiny
Tomorrow, the UEFA Champions League begins in earnest. Europe’s biggest names will compete for the football’s most lucrative prize. This season’s champions might just be the upstarts from Paris.
Heritage of hate: How the Confederacy created Charlottesville
American white supremacists take their cues from a far older influence than the Nazis: the Confederate States of America, a nation dedicated to upholding and extending slavery.
It’s finally time to retire the royals
The monarchy is a fundamental part of public life. But why is this still considered appropriate? Why shouldn’t we have a national debate about the place of the Royal Family in modern society?
For the love of God, get rid of John McDonnell
An unrepentant Marxist, an ideological bully and an IRA sympathiser, John McDonnell is the avatar for all that’s bad about the Labour Party. He needs to go to give this government-in-waiting credibility.
The prime minister who lost America
Lord North is sometimes called Britain’s worst ever prime minister. But does the man who lost the American colonies deserve this title, or was he a hapless victim of circumstance?
