The 👊🇺🇸🔥 presidency

The role of a foreign minister’s wife

Diary

There are times when I find that I have no choice but to bear witness to great historical events

Anne Applebaum

Autocracy, Inc. is woefully inadequate to the times in which it appears

Daniel McCarthy

Plus: Journos react to Tucker Carlson’s interview with Putin

The Spectator

Neoliberals and neocons want him sanctioned or banned from the US

Cockburn

Cockburn’s Diary

Plus: Harry and Meghan’s record unpopularity

Cockburn

COVID
February 27, 2023
A short list of people who said the lab leak theory was a conspiracy
Tom Cotton was right after all
Cockburn
Cockburn’s Diary
February 10, 2023
Former Spectator deputy editor turns government censor
Plus: TikTok spies at State of the Union?
Cockburn
Politics
April 7, 2022
Atlantic journalist: I still don’t care about Hunter’s laptop
The deeply discerning Anne Applebaum doesn’t find the story ‘interesting’
Cockburn
Books
July 23, 2020
Good memoir-writing should be self-critical
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism by Anne Applebaum reviewed
Douglas Murray
July 22, 2020
Am I still friends with Anne Applebaum?
The UK edition of her new book carries the subtitle ‘The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends’
Charles Moore