The far-right violence against foreigners in the United Kingdom these days strongly reminds me of a novel published in the 1980s: J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians. The far-right violence ...
“The muddy depths are being stirred by new monsters and witches from the deep,” Gore Vidal once wrote of the resurgence of the far right in the United States. In ...
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s big plans for the United Kingdom, a searing heat wave in Ukraine, and cyanide poisonings in ...
Two weeks on from the most crushing defeat in its 190-year history, the United Kingdom’s Conservative Party is poised between reinvention and decline. The party is, in a sense, completely ...
Britain’s Labour Party won 411 seats in the House of Commons in the July 4 national election. It was the country’s biggest landslide victory since Tony Blair first took office ...
Many years ago, I heard a well-known English novelist refer to Andrew O’Hagan, somewhat disparagingly, as “Andrew O’Tolstoy.” He was making a point about O’Hagan’s seriousness. At the time, O’Hagan ...
When Labour left government 14 years ago, the global foreign-policy landscape reflected the strong steer of New Labour’s liberal interventionist “ethical foreign policy.” The last Labour government had embraced a ...
“We don’t have a lot of time, do we?” David Lammy says as I sit down next to him. “Sorry about that!” We’re meeting in a bistro near Parliament, and ...
The United Kingdom may have a population of only some 67 million, but militarily it punches far above its weight. It has a large army (though not large enough or ...
As Keir Starmer begins his first full week in Downing Street as Britain’s new prime minister, his inbox is heavy with foreign-policy challenges, from wars in Ukraine and Gaza to ...
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