After meeting for the first time with Germany’s Angela Merkel and France’s Francois Hollande, newly ordained UK Prime Minister Theresa May is expected to announce that post-Brexit, the nation is ready to accept the free movement of its people. ‘British citizens’, May will say in a speech scheduled for sometime later, ‘should expect to continue to be allowed to travel and…
For the best part of twenty years Manchester United enjoyed an effective hegemony over the Premier League, as between 1993 and 2013 a glorified group of British youngsters, led by Alex Ferguson the red-nosed Scot, helped the side to a remarkable thirteen league titles. For much of the past decade Manchester United’s main rivals at the top of the Premier…
Bodies with mass inevitably attract, at least according to Isaac Newton. But when bodies, objects, masses – whatever you want to call them – do come together they’re usually not sticky, with a viscous substance between them that clings fast and feels increasingly disgusting. But then there’s nothing usual about the hottest day of summer, which is why we call it…
In a country which straddles the Bosphorus unevenly yet can seem figuratively split down the middle between religious fanatics and strident secularists, it is often left to the armed forces to uphold some semblance of secular order in Turkey. It is an institution as important as the Presidency, Congress, and Supreme Court are for the separation of powers in the…
The United States has pitched a curveball to the international community, and it’s one even a steady bat might not be able to hit. Because despite a lukewarm response from even its closest allies, the country has vowed to press ahead with plans for a free-form month of June, in order to make space for an annual Fourth of July weekend….
She was meant to be leading her first cabinet meeting and preparing for her first conflabs with Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande. But today Theresa May instead remained caught up in Parliament, proudly listing the names of all those places upon which she would happily drop a nuclear bomb. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn may have erred on the side of…
Above a neck that emerges stiffly from a ruff starched likewise, it is a beardless cold-creamed face, with the air of a hydrocephalic asparagus. The eyes are drowned in the opium of universal indulgence, the clown’s mouth bewitches like a peculiar geranium. Mouth which goes from the unbunged hole, glacially hilarious, to the transcendental elusiveness of the Mona Lisa’s empty…
Jeremy Corbyn might have shown a lifelong commitment to nuclear disarmament, joining the CND as a teenager all the way back in 1966 and campaigning resolutely on its behalf, before becoming vice chair of the organisation and finally vice president last October. But this sort of conviction politics is old hat, quite out of place from the perspective of the…
Sometimes it simply can’t be helped. You’re enjoying a nice bar of your favourite chocolate, you’re pulling those button-shaped and candy-covered treats out of their too-small packages one by ever-loving one, you’ve got your fingers all in the wrapping paper and your tongue is making it clean, and somehow some of that chocolate has ended up smeared all over your…
Crispin Blunt, the Conservative MP for Reigate and Chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, believes that even in today’s increasingly hostile geopolitical climate he can make a paradisiacal island for himself on reasoned argument’s milk and honey. What folly Mr. Blunt! For Mr. Blunt was the only Conservative MP to vote yesterday against the renewal of the United Kingdom’s Trident nuclear…
