“We must not let in daylight upon magic,” the historian and constitutionalist Walter Bagehot famously wrote of the monarchy. A great deal of daylight is…

I think those residents of the Normandy village of Ver-sur-Mer who are objecting to a proposed memorial to the 22,442 British soldiers who died during…

What to do with Shamima Begum? The question dominates the front pages of today’s newspapers. Begum, I should explain, is a British-born Muslim who as…

The State of the Union speech is a unique American political tradition. The rest of us should be grateful that it is. Unique, I mean.…

As much as I despise Donald Trump and all his nefarious works, the Divided America that commentators bewail daily, and which may yet threaten his…