For the past three days the British newspapers, broadsheet and tabloid alike, have been obsessed with a particular story. No, not Trump’s latest outrage, or…

What was wrong with the process leading to Brett Kavanaugh’s elevation to the Supreme Court was not its partisan and fractious nature – which is…

Brett Kavanaugh is one very angry man. His exchanges in the Senate confirmation hearing were those of a tortured and embittered soul who feels he…

The vast Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, which I have just visited, is almost beyond words, but in the end words are all we are left with,…

I’m leaving the country tomorrow. Only for a short break, mind, just a few days, but I’m still wondering what kind of Britain I’ll be…

In the end, it all came down to that sacred concept: A Matter of Principle. So said seventy-three-year-old Ms Timmins, and with considerable passion, after…

In printing last week an op-ed column by an anonymous White House official criticising the inadequacies of its present occupant, the New York Times acted…

Has there ever been a more bewildered, uncertain time in this divided country of ours?  I mean Britain (in case any readers of the American…

Two American political figures, contrasting manners. Senator John McCain will have two former presidents delivering eulogies at his funeral.  The sitting president has not been…

Why does the ancient curse of anti-Semitism never go away? Why are there still wild-eyed rabble-rousers still going around spouting nonsense about the Holocaust being…