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The British Right Is in Oddly Fine Fettle

19.03.2025 10

Adrian Wooldridge

US CEOs Need to Find Their Missing Backbones

Corporate chieftains and investors never expected an entirely smooth ride from a second Trump presidency. But did any CEOs expect fierce trade wars...

13.03.2025 2

Adrian Wooldridge

How Has the 21st Century Gone So Wrong?

“Never before has our nation enjoyed, at once, so much prosperity and social progress with so little internal crisis and so few external threats,”...

31.12.2024 20

Adrian Wooldridge

Musk and Milei Belong to the Same Cult of Disruption

The cult of “disruption” is quickly spreading from the private sector to the public. Javier Milei, the president of Argentina, has axed ten...

13.12.2024 30

Adrian Wooldridge

Can Nigel Farage Ascend the UK's Greasy Pole?

This has been a dismal year for Britain’s political leaders: most obviously for Rishi Sunak, who led the Conservatives to their worst defeat in the...

11.12.2024 20

Adrian Wooldridge

From White House to Mouse House, Successions Are a Killer Problem

The Democratic Party’s defeat in November was the result of, among other things, failed succession planning. An ageing Joe Biden refused to retire...

27.11.2024 20

Adrian Wooldridge

Ratan Tata Was One of Globalization's Giants

India marked Ratan Tata’s death on Oct. 7 in a very Indian fashion. His body was displayed in a glass coffin draped in the country’s tricolor...

17.10.2024 10

Adrian Wooldridge

Why It's Very Posh to Love Football These Days

In 1995, the Britpop band Pulp had a hit with “Common People.” The song satirized the elite’s longing to be ordinary, describing a love affair...

06.10.2024 6

Adrian Wooldridge

Populist Leaders Are the Grift That Keeps on Taking

“As a dog returns to its vomit, so fools repeat their folly,” says the Good Book. And so it went for Austria’s voters: On Sept. 29, they put the...

02.10.2024 3

Adrian Wooldridge

Nanny States Are Now Essential to Economic Health

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the rulers of the industrial world started to worry about the health of the people. National governments...

26.09.2024 10

Adrian Wooldridge

The Labour Government’s Freebie Frenzy Shows Incompetence

The first party conference after winning a historic majority ought to be an occasion for joy unconfined. Yet, as Labour meets this week in...

24.09.2024 1

Adrian Wooldridge

A US Soft Landing Will Rest on Increasingly Shaky Ground

Americans might be forgiven for basking in self-satisfaction when it comes to the economy. The country’s most prominent CEO, Jamie Dimon, has...

20.09.2024 2

Adrian Wooldridge

'Sick Society' Is No Longer Just a Metaphor for the UK

The idea that Britain is a sick society is no longer an idle metaphor. The British are not only sicker, on average, than the inhabitants of most...

19.09.2024 6

Adrian Wooldridge

Draghi’s Love Letter to Industrial Strategy Risks Heartbreak

Mario Draghi wants Europe to follow the United States and China down the road marked “industrial strategy.” As Europe’s most influential...

11.09.2024 3

Adrian Wooldridge

Keir Starmer's Miserabilist Agenda Will Only Hurt Labour

Britain is only just beginning to recover from the last great culture war between Leavers and Remainers, and I can already see another one...

06.09.2024 4

Adrian Wooldridge

Wake Me When the Internet of Things Is Over

Back in 2013, fashionable people started wearing glasses with a small but inevitably conspicuous built-in heads-up display and camera. These...

04.09.2024 2

Adrian Wooldridge

Elon Musk’s Free Speech Absolutism Is Supremely Flawed

Hardly a day goes by without Elon Musk trumpeting his belief in the absolute importance of free speech. He insists that “moderation is a propaganda...

29.08.2024 3