Today
- Opinion
- US election
Why billionaires support Trump
Business people struggle to understand fanaticism. In commercial life, all actors are negotiable, even if their price is high. They also tend to overrate contrarianism.
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This Month
- Opinion
- World elections
The last best hope against populism is to expose it to government
Emmanuel Macron has concluded that power often tames radical parties or demonstrates their incompetence. His election call might be the most prudent thing he could have done.
April
- Opinion
- Social media
Screen addiction is a disease. Blame wealth
Smartphone addiction, culture wars and low birth rates are all byproducts of modern success that are difficult to fix.
March
- Opinion
- US election
Biden must promise a more conservative second term
The US president has to do what he has always done, except recently: upset his party. The moderates who trusted him in 2020 have to know that he is theirs, not the left’s.
February
- Opinion
- US election
Why losing US elections is a lucrative business
Life is much cushier in opposition, especially in the United States, so there’s no reason to moderate to try and win power.
January
- Opinion
- Globalisation
The world is better seen from Dubai than Davos
When the world was American-led, market-based and ever more democratic, Davos was a useful distillation of it. Dubai is now a more faithful portrait.
- Opinion
- World politics
The welcome demise of big-government Toryism
When Rishi Sunak cut high-speed rail, commentators wrongly saw it as a betrayal of the red wall vision. But the nonsensical red-wall agenda was never needed.
- Updated
- Opinion
- World elections
Reports of the death of democracy are greatly exaggerated
The free world has shrunk, but only compared with its zenith 10 years ago. The West today is too willing to give autocrats too much credit, too soon.
December 2023
- Opinion
- Tax reform
Why Emmanuel Macron is bravest leader of the year
The French president is probably the only Western leader to stare down public dissent at much-needed austerity measures. The rest should study his shattering experience.
November 2023
- Opinion
- World elections
Biden can’t spin his way to re-election
To prevent a second term of Donald Trump, Democrats must accept that what is going wrong is their basic proposition, not the framing or messaging of it.
- Opinion
- Workplace
‘An education in real life’: Why the young must go to the office
Apart from dating, there is no better study of human behaviour than working in, and soaking up, the office.
October 2023
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
West’s enemies may be evil, but there’s no ‘axis’
Democracies should tease out the contradictions between Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, instead of dangerously lumping them together as a bloc.
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
America finds there is more to the world than China
The US is going through the most awkward phase in the life cycle of an empire. Its relative power in the world is down from its peak, but its burdens aren’t.
September 2023
- Opinion
- Foreign relations
What the world should expect from a second Trump term
Admirers and enemies alike are forever reading grand visions into a man with an almost touchingly banal, dollars-and-cents worldview.
August 2023
- Opinion
- Trump's America
Rotting rule of law a bigger problem than threat to democracy
Liberals fret too much about dictatorship and not enough about chaos on the streets.
Is Britain’s net zero consensus crumbling?
Britain will look back on a seemingly banal by-election in this ostensibly quiet northern summer as the beginning of the end of its net zero consensus.
May 2023
- Opinion
- US election
Why Ron DeSantis is losing Republican voters to Donald Trump
Populist voters are not looking for a smart version of Trump. They are still more interested in kicking the establishment than running a government.
February 2023
- Opinion
- Workplace
Why we can’t stop making fun of managers
There is grandeur in ownership. There is dignity in labour. It is the management tier in between that has to plead for its reputation.
- Opinion
- Leadership lessons
Why a good speaking voice will get you ahead
Boris Johnson isn’t funny. But he’s the perfect example of how a good speaking voice is as much of an asset in work and life as physical beauty.
January 2023
- Opinion
- Globalisation
The West will rue its protectionism
Elite guilt about globalisation is handing an intellectual victory to the zero-sum world of populists and dictators.