P*LITICS

An extract from City of Echoes: A New History of Rome, its Popes, and its People by Jessica Wärnberg.

How It Started… How It's Going. Alexander Larman writes his way into a trilogy about the Windsor family.

An extract from Daybreak, the brand new novel by Matt Gallagher.

“Our highly-trained cormorant chorus represents the very best of Brexit Britain.”

To mark the sixtieth anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Dominic Hilton recalls his giddy days in “Camelot”.

Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX and Elizabeth Holmes' Theranos are but modern-day reincarnations of Cazique MacGregor’s Poyais.

For credulous investors, Poyais was an exotic land of unparalleled opportunity.

Was the remarkable territory of Poyais—full of unbounded commercial and civic promise—all it was made up to be? Or was it simply too good to be true?

The modern-day conflict of Arab and Jew looks depressingly similar to the old modern-day conflict of Arab and Jew.

Full transcript of four speeches made by the hastily-appointed Toastmaster at the Annual Oxford and Cambridge Universities Dinner at the Residence of the British Ambassador to Argentina, on Thursday October 5th 2023.

On the fiftieth anniversary of the military coup in Chile, Dominic Hilton remembers an ill-fated city break he took to Santiago a few weeks before the start of the global pandemic.

America has travelled to yet another new, if truly sad frontier, says former White House Correspondent, David Smith.

As the Speaker of the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly jets off to be a speaker at the Speakers' conference in the Caribbean, ASH Smyth speaks to the Speaker about Speakership. And speaking.

Ever raised close to half a billion dollars for cancer sufferers? No? Then quit your moralising about Lance Armstrong, says Mitchell Belacone.

“Call me a philistine, but I like art most when it’s good.” Dominic Hilton and friends visit a Banksy exhibition.

In their deafness, the Royal Family missed a precious opportunity with Meghan Markle, says David Smith.

Lionel Messi, like Diego Maradona before him, touches the raw, national nerve of failure and transforms it into the triumph that Argentina so desperately seeks.

The activism that so nearly disrupted the 1978 World Cup Final between Argentina and the Netherlands can help us better handle Qatar 2022, says David Smith.

Thunderstorms, tapping out, and The Crown. The Queen’s death hit different in Buenos Aires, writes Dominic Hilton.

Proposed collaborations for His New Majesty: from Thomas the Tank Engine to The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

State of the Nation: unfulfilled promises and un-fuel-filled petrol pumps in Sri Lanka.

From a distance, David Smith sees something rotten in the state of Britain.

From Buenos Aires, Dominic Hilton on escaping the threat of nuclear annihilation.

On Commonwealth Day, a hungover ASH Smyth on the kindness of strangers.

A perfect storm of an aging population, robots taking jobs, and a Social Security system facing collapse, America will find itself in a tough place in just 20 years time.

2021 showed us that we are already living in China’s century, says David Smith.

“If mistakes were made, he got no lunch.” ASH Smyth on the very curious life of philosopher JS Mill.

Sat in an abandoned mall filled with the National Guard and Boomer nurses was dystopian. But the aggressive activism of the local coffee shop is worse.

This year’s Nobel Peace Prize reminds us that truth-telling lies at the heart of humanity’s well-being.

Successful resistance movements were effective in instituting change because they were linguistically excellent.