Piddington’s very English revolution
At a packed village hall meeting in picturesque Piddington, parish council leader Tim McNally railed against the British state. “The Government has stacked all of…
America’s unstoppable Hispanic future
“American dominance of the Western Hemisphere will never be questioned again,” declared the US Department of State in a new video explaining the Trump administration’s embrace of the Monroe Doctrine,…
A storm is coming for Labour
While some Scottish nationalists are eager to remind everyone else it has been raining in the Highlands, these past months have been unprecedented for much of the UK. Two-thirds of…
The Japanese crime wave sweeping Britain
Thirty years ago, if you asked someone British to name their favorite Japanese author, most people would say Haruki Murakami. One of Japan’s best-known postwar novelists, he has been divisive…
The sexless lives of millennial feminists
It was a good time to be a Millennial girlboss in 2018. #MeToo was tearing through institutions and canceling pervs. Beyoncé became Coachella’s first black female headliner, a phenomenon known…
Will Mexico be the next front in WWIII?
Last week, the State Department revoked the visa of “Andy” López Beltrán, son of former Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). The move is the latest escalation between the…
Hands off the constitution, Andy
For fans of British exceptionalism, the fact that the UK is only one of three of the world’s democracies without a written constitution — the other two being Israel and…
Mario Vargas Llosa’s soap-opera life
Mario Vargas Llosa was 10 years old when his mother revealed to him, on a walk along the riverside promenade of the Peruvian city of Piura in early 1947, that…
How Hollywood devoured Hayden
I enjoyed reading Noel Streatfield’s beloved children’s classic Ballet Shoes recently, with my primary-age daughter. But revisiting the text as an adult, the ending landed less pleasantly than I remembered…
My health insurer wants cancer to win
On Nov. 19, 2024, I was diagnosed with polycythemia vera, a rare blood cancer. The day was a blur, but I remember my hematologist, Dr. Fadi Haddad at Houston’s MD…
Why we tolerate homelessness
Rough sleepers are a feature of everyday life for city dwellers. Though most regard this as regrettable, few believe responsibility for tackling it lies with them personally. And so they…