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Martin IvensChicago Tribune |
Rachel Reeves has the rare distinction among Britain’s chancellors of bearing the description ‘professional economist’ on her CV. Mysteriously,...
Archbishops of Canterbury are more likely to be executed by the state — the fate of Thomas Cranmer and William Laud in the Reformation era — than...
In days of old, a monarch could in theory do no wrong — until the revolutionaries stormed the gates of the palace. Blame fell on ‘evil’...
The waiters serve a decent glass of champagne on the crowded decks of the Tory Titanic. No matter that the Conservatives suffered their worst...
The Conservatives are the party of “easy answers,” sneered Keir Starmer in his speech to the Labour party conference in Liverpool this week. He...
If everything is so good for the UK’s ruling Labour Party why does it feel so bad? Delegates gathering in Liverpool this weekend for their annual...
Franklin D. Roosevelt famously kicked off his first 100 days as US president declaring, “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” In the...
First, the good news for the next leader of the UK’s benighted Conservative party — the popularity of the new Labour government is tanking. After...
“How’s that hopey, changey stuff working out?” sneered defeated Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, a year after Barack Obama...
As a cub reporter, I once asked Margaret Thatcher why she hadn’t employed her tough new labor laws against a militant trade union. “Mr Ivens,”...
Swift justice has made hooligans think twice about joining the mobs that brought mayhem to Britain’s streets last week. Round-the-clock courts and...
The worst targeted attack on children in Britain for nearly three decades left three little girls dead and five more seriously wounded on Monday. A...
After its worst electoral drubbing in history, the Conservative Party is staging a so-called beauty contest, with nominations for the party leadership...
David Lammy, Labour’s foreign secretary, insists he can find “common ground” with his Republican pal JD Vance, Donald Trump’s pick for his...
Bereavement is said to be typically followed by five stages — denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Many Tories are still markedly...
The camera-phone shot of Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria at a Taylor Swift concert in London has rightly been described by his allies as "the...
Half the Cabinet, minus Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, joined donors at the Tory summer party at London’s elite Hurlingham Club on Thursday night. Amid...
By tradition, Labour election manifestos — election-winning ones at least — are accused of betraying party ideology. There’s even a joke: A...
Echoing Ronald Reagan’s famous Pointe du Hoc speech 40 years ago commemorating the D-Day landings, President Joe Biden declared on Thursday that the...
“Loyalty is the Tory party’s secret weapon,” Conservative minister David Maxwell Fyfe once famously remarked. He was wrong then, and he’s...
Before the general election campaign was even called, pollsters were declaring it game, set and match to Labour leader Keir Starmer. The opposition...
It’s deja vu all over again in UK politics. In response to dire local election results, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak rallied his Tory troops with a...
Two Conservative Members of Parliament have recently crossed the floor of the House of Commons to join the opposition Labour Party, which is the...
When Anthony Eden, Winston Churchill’s successor as prime minister, failed to stamp his authority on the country, his deputy R.A. Butler came to his...
The ink was barely dry on US President Joe Biden’s signature of a long delayed Congressional bill to aid Ukraine when artillery and air-defense...
In arguments about the merits of restricting smoking, libertarians lose hands down. The “nanny state” has the weight of science, common sense,...
The opinion polls all suggest that the UK’s Tory government is toast, but there is no such unanimity about the Labour Party. Standing on the...
The Israeli Defense Forces airstrike on the World Central Kitchen aid convoy in Gaza that killed seven of its workers, including three Britons, poses...
UK Defense Secretary Grant Shapps made a special trip to the western Atlantic last month aboard the submarine HMS Vanguard, one of the vessels that...
The UK Labour Party once came to bury its most formidable foe, Margaret Thatcher, not to praise her. No longer. In December, Keir Starmer saluted the...
The UK government has issued a new “definition” of extremism. Islamists and far-right factions that incite violence and undermine democracy will...
When Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt stole the Labour Party’s signature policy of taxing the overseas income of foreign residents to pay for...
If truth is the first casualty of war, then the first casualty of culture war is civility. The sufferings of Israelis and Palestinians shown nightly...
On Wednesday, a crisis threatened Keir Starmer’s steady progress toward No. 10, with as many as 100 Labour members of Parliament and several members...
One in two men in most western countries past the age of 65 is diagnosed with a form of cancer at some point. So the news that King Charles III is...
David Cameron grabbed the limelight this week with a bold suggestion that the UK might recognize a Palestinian state in advance of a Middle East peace...
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak saw off a forlorn attempt at a party coup last week, mounted by a less-than-famous former cabinet minister, Simon Clarke,...
If you want peace, prepare for war, was the Roman maxim. Following that injunction the US maintains its place as first among superpower equals, even...
A famous West End production of J.B Priestley’s morality play An Inspector Calls ends with the walls of a home falling down around a rich family,...
Nearly 53,000 more people died in the UK last year above the normal rate of mortal attrition — the highest figure recorded in a non-pandemic year...
The Atlantic and the English Channel are narrower than you might think. The fashionable theory these last few years was that President Donald Trump...
A group of right-wing dissident Tory factions, dubbed “The Five Families” — a tribute to the mafia clans popularized in The Godfather —...
One famous definition of insanity, wrongly attributed to Einstein, is “doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” For 13...