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How to deal with Russian leaders

Tony Blair

Russia

How to deal with Russian leaders

Putin is impervious to mere persuasion

Robert Service

Why do neoliberals get let off the Iraq War hook?

There are prominent liberal hawks who have somehow escaped condemnation for helping promote the invasion

John R. MacArthur

What a super-majority means for Britain’s Labour Party

Tories fear that the BBC and other broadcasters will treat them as a fringe party

Katy Balls

The plot to replace Rishi Sunak

When things get bad, the Tories change leader. It’s the party’s natural reflex

Katy Balls

Television

The Crown ends in a blaze of camp glory

Purists and royal historians will carp at its tastelessness and excess

Alexander Larman

Television
December 4, 2023
Can The Crown redeem itself in its final hours?
We could be looking at the worst-received finale to a major television show since Game of Thrones
Alexander Larman
Television
November 16, 2023
The Crown season six: a regal return to form?
The newest episodes deal with the final weeks of Princess Diana and the aftermath of her death
Alexander Larman
DC Diary
July 28, 2023
The West’s climate dead end
Plus: Mace’s hot summer
Oliver Wiseman
Television
October 21, 2022
The Crown is inaccurate and impossible not to watch
The latest season touches off a firestorm yet the show has always skirted a fine line
Alexander Larman
Politics
July 27, 2022
The ‘natcons’ are here to stay
Internal fights there will be, but they will make the right stronger
Steven F. Hayward
Music
July 12, 2022
My night with the Rolling Stones
Recalling a drug-related adventure from the 1970s
Christopher Sandford
Europe
August 26, 2021
The neocolonialist legacy of Tony Blair
Blair’s view of the world was that of a simpleton, yet it persists among neoliberals to this day
Rod Liddle
February 27, 2020
Where did it all go wrong in Guinea?
President Condé has begun to succumb to African Strongman Syndrome
Colin Freeman
Diary
January 9, 2020
Ben Schott: I’m Tony Blair’s brother (according to Google)
I was there at the very beginning, when Olivia Colman starred opposite her husband-to-be in a 1995 Cambridge production of Alan Ayckbourn’s Table Manners
Ben Schott
Internet
November 14, 2019
Sordid confessions of a Centrist Dad
I have taken to seeking out short films of taboo figures like Tony Blair and Barack Obama, being maturely analytical and thrillingly reasonable
Sam Leith

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