Niall Ferguson

Threaten Kim, pray he blinks

0:00 AMniall fergusonOther American presidents have ducked taking on North Korea. Donald Trump has no choice.

World CommentaryWhen the egg hits the Tesla

0:00 AMNIALL FERGUSONUS President Donald Trump reflects a rising fear of the social costs of going green in government policy.

World CommentaryApocalypse now not just yet

0:00 AMNiall FergusonBrinkmanship is back — this time between the US and North Korea — and the world is back on the brink of war.

World CommentaryTrump’s global war has no end

0:00 AMNIALL FERGUSONThe war in Cyberia has begun. Its first casualty was truth but it will have no last casualty as it’s a war without end.

Clinton and a pivot to China

0:00 AMNIALL FERGUSONThere will be an urgent need for the new president to reshape American foreign policy.

The new class war: Brexit edition

0:00 AMNiall FergusonLittle Englander Theresa May bids for Labour votes by roasting the global elite.

Hillary Snafu and Donald Fubar

0:00 AMNiall FergusonNeither presidential candidate is trusted by much more than a third of voters.

Tale of two communities

0:00 AMNiall FergusonThe US elite may disdain The Donald but poor white have other ideas — and the numbers.

UK kicked down stairway to hell

13:23 PMNIALL FERGUSONBrexit is a win — a Pyrrhic victory in economic terms — for older, whiter English and Welsh working-class voters.

Clinton can come up trumps

0:00 AMNiall FergusonDemocrats are in the box seat, but the battle for the White House is closer than the odds suggest .

Monumental clash of generations

0:00 AMNiall FergusonThe conflict of economic interests between young and old has arrived.

Isolating fog blankets Channel

0:00 AMNiall FergusonThere is nothing splendid about the ills Britain risks by ignoring history.

Mao nostalgia is exaggerated

0:00 AMNiall FergusonChina’s new cultural revolution is anything but a backlash against the bourgeois.

Trump: think the unthinkable

0:00 AMNiall FergusonDespite constitutional constraints, Trump still will be able to act as a global wrecking ball.

Calculation behind ‘regular guy’

0:00 AMNiall FergusonIf the Republican contest becomes a free-for-all, Ted Cruz just may swing the party’s nomination.

Nazi robot Donald’s trump card

17:00 PMNiall FergusonAnyone fearing an AI takeover should take heart that we can create Artificial Stupidity, too.

Trump specialty is counterpunch

0:00 AMNiall FergusonMacho politicians such as The Donald are not truly manly at all.

world commentaryObama blames friends on Mid-East

0:00 AMNiall FergusonThere is a powerful symbolism in the impending collapse of Iraq’s Mosul dam.

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