D onald Trump performed his usual pre-international meeting diplomacy this week, when he had a go at his allies and commended an authoritarian former enemy. If you’re a NATO ally, you got the…
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L ike Mark Twain’s death, reports of Theresa May’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. Unlike the legendary writer’s death rumors, however, these are more frequent and relentless. Quite how a person…
S o, President Trump didn’t want to come to London to open the brand new, amazingly expensive, monumentally secure and advanced American Embassy because it was a bad real-estate deal.
Other than getting the…
T here’s never a good time for a feeding frenzy to break over a political system, but it is difficult to envisage many worse times for the British parliament and government than now.
The…
A s the extraordinary results of the UK's general election sink in, and we get used to this spinning British polity, there are a few immediate takeaways to be noted from the campaign in…
I f you thought Theresa May was tone-deaf and unresponsive during the actual election campaign, then that's nothing on her performance since.
Following her seriously reduced circumstances I initially thought it was right for her…
T he Manchester atrocity hasn't actually persuaded people to forget what a very poor campaign Theresa May appears to be conducting in the UK General Election, as polls suggest something of a nose-dive for…
1. Theresa May hasn’t actually called a general election yet. She can’t. The Fixed Term Parliament Act leaves that decision with the House of Commons, so in reality the fate of this putative…
by Giles Marshall
Britain’s prime minister, Theresa May, will be the first foreign leader to meet new US president Donald Trump this Friday and it has caused a resurgence of hope in Britain that the…
by Giles Marshall
Theresa May has now been prime minister of Britain for six months, but to read the current flurry of British press commentary you would be forgiven for thinking that she is a…