Matthew d’Ancona
20 February 2024
How the west betrayed Navalny
We could have helped him become Russia’s Mandela – but instead we preferred performative scolding and mindless culture wars
Read the full article14 February 2024
Matthew d’Ancona’s Culture: An Enemy of the People is political drama of the highest calibre
Our editor-at-large’s new rundown of the pick of the week’s theatre, film and TV
Read the full article13 February 2024
The republic is in grave peril as American Ulysses Biden fades away
The stakes in this election could scarcely be higher. Is Biden up to the challenge?
Read the full article07 February 2024
Matthew d’Ancona’s Culture: Sathnam Sanghera’s Empireworld is essential reading in post-Brexit Britain
Our editor-at-large's brand-new rundown of the pick of the week's theatre, film and TV
Read the full article07 February 2024
The flipside of Sunak’s smugness is his undeniable ridiculousness. He’s a joke
When they’re laughing at you, you know you’ve lost
Read the full article30 January 2024
Follow Germany’s lead and take fear and venom out of the migration issue
German protests against AfD’s far right extremism show us how to beat the populists
Read the full article23 January 2024
Trump and the nightmare of tyranny lurking within the American dream
Despite facing 91 felony charges, Trump is going to be the Republican presidential nominee. He is a dictator-in-waiting
Read the full article16 January 2024
Common decency vs the Post Office
For the sake of our souls, the idolisation of “business” must end
Read the full article10 January 2024
The karaoke moralists of Davos shrug as the fire they lit burns up the world
The world’s most discredited and pointless summit will provide few answers
Read the full article03 January 2024
Five ways that Starmer can be a PM of consequence by bringing back trust
Anything short of a hefty Commons majority will be viewed as a failure for the Labour leader
Read the full article20 December 2023
Doctor Who shows the best of Britain – Rishi Sunak is showing us at our worst
The returning sci-fi series – a British institution – reminds us that we still do many things brilliantly and with generosity of spirit
Read the full article12 December 2023
The Tories are a bunch of pound shop Enoch Powells
Faced with electoral oblivion, their reckless actions risk inflicting damage on the country that will take many years to repair
Read the full article06 December 2023
Rishi Sunak, the peevish toddler in Number 10
The row with Greece shows Sunak can’t even do basic diplomacy. So what’s the point of him being PM?
Read the full article29 November 2023
If you think Gaza is heading for a neat and happy ending, you’re wrong
Don’t be fooled, Israel will not rest until Hamas has been destroyed. This war is only just starting
Read the full article22 November 2023
Meet Danny Kruger, the dangerous saviour of British nationalism
The Tory MP is no swaggering populist, but a leading light of a new cohort of Tories for whom nationalism and nationhood are the intellectual core of public life
Read the full article14 November 2023
Psychic numbing is preventing the west from confronting Hamas’s horror
We have no right to avert our gaze from the Israel-Hamas war
Read the full article07 November 2023
Sunak’s gruesome interview with Elon Musk demeaned the office of PM
Sunak has stooped to cheap sensationalism and the country deserves a leader who aims higher
Read the full article01 November 2023
Britain has always been multicultural. It’s the only way to keep it running
Embracing both the dilemmas and rewards of multicultural coexistence will mean abandoning the government’s populist resentment
Read the full article31 October 2023
Why Britain is Sunakered
Worse even than Boris Johnson or Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak’s blinkered arrogance has accelerated the decline and fall of the Tory empire
Read the full article20 October 2023
Biden goes to war
Can the US president steer events in the Middle East?
Read the full article16 October 2023
Israel cannot act alone again. The world must build a post-Hamas Gaza
Urgent, innovative action is needed to defeat the terrorists and bring hope
Read the full article10 October 2023
Nigel Farage as the next Tory PM? The idea is poisonous.. and plausible
A broken Tory party would turn to a Farage comeback
Read the full article04 October 2023
The only change Rishi Sunak will bring about is a change of government
This strange, stale conference speech by a man of no vision won’t revive the Tories
Read the full article04 October 2023
More fire, more fury as the evil Ferris Bueller goes further than ever before
No serious candidate for the presidency has ever deployed such grotesque and horrific language. But then there has never been a politician like Trump
Read the full article27 September 2023
Sunak and his descendants will be fine – it’s everyone else who needs to worry
The country has been binned by the prime minister and his moral complacency
Read the full article19 September 2023
Russell Brand is not a martyr and the claims against him are not a conspiracy
This moment is about the women who had the courage to come forward
Read the full article13 September 2023
It’s time for Starmer to spell out his vision for reinventing Britain
Is the Labour leader ready to step up to the plate and turn Britain into a modern, forward-thinking nation?
Read the full article05 September 2023
Britain is broken and the Tories can’t fix it
Britain has become a crumbling land of perpetual slums with a moribund prime minister with no plan
Read the full article30 August 2023
Donald Trump’s conspiracist challenger offers a chilling vision of the right’s future
Vivek Ramaswamy’s moment in the sun signifies that Trump is only the beginning
Read the full article22 August 2023
The Lionesses’ vision of England is worlds away from the Tories’ ugly variant
During the World Cup, the Lionesses brought the difference between patriotism and nationalism into sharp focus
Read the full article16 August 2023
The Eurosceptics are now ecosceptics… this time, they will wreck the planet
Brexit is more than enough for any political generation. But, the worst is yet to come
Read the full article02 August 2023
In our debased world, a new, benign Manhattan Project is unimaginable
We stand badly in need of the spirit of Oppenheimer’s Los Alamos but modern populism recoils from intense strategic inquiries and policy formulation
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