Burnham is keeping his enemies close
Last Monday, Andy Burnham delivered what was perhaps the most ambitious statement of economic intent since 1997. Standing outside Downing Street, the Prime Minister spoke…
When private equity came for trailer parks
I’ve never been called “trailer trash”, but I did live in a trailer in Northeast Georgia in my early teens. Trailers don’t have the best reputation, but I liked it…
Is Andy Burnham a plastic Papist?
Patriotic Englishmen used to be terrified that their country was ruled by Roman Catholics. Nothing could better rouse them to action than the story, real or imagined, that Popery had…
The Thomas Piketty doctrine is already here
Academics need to get out a bit more. That, at least, is the impression one might form from the recently-released report of the Global Justice Project, the fruit of a…
Brussels: Europe’s Pimp City
A short walk south from the European Parliament building in Brussels is the Avenue Louise, the Belgian capital’s answer to the Champs-Elysées — a three-kilometer stretch of high-end restaurants and…
I was a charismatic Christian
The night before my father drove three hours to Southern Illinois to do battle with a demon bird, he handed me a three-ring binder. Inside was a thick stack of…
Belfast after the ‘beheading’
Sheltering from the rain in a bus stop on East Belfast’s Protestant Newtownards Road, a location whose growing trendiness sits uneasily with its active UVF paramilitarism, an elderly couple looked…
The end of Pax Americana at sea
The Ukrainians have a lot to teach the United States and the Trump administration about naval warfare. Read more The indignity of Gaudí Lego When Russia invaded four years ago,…
The indignity of Gaudí Lego
When asked why his masterpiece, the Sagrada Família church in Barcelona, was taking so long to complete, the architect Antoni Gaudí is said to have replied, “my client can wait”.…
Hunter Biden: from failson to antihero
Let’s play a game: who said it, Hunter Biden or Kendall Roy? “I am interested in becoming a meth head”; “I would never have forgotten my drugs.” “He’s protecting his…
Von der Leyen is coming for Europe’s wallet
The Multiannual Financial Framework. Even for a body as jargon-prone as the European Union, the phrase feels almost bewilderingly dull. Perhaps that’s the point. For hidden amid the technical language…