America

Between them, Juan Carlos Copes and María Nieves rescued a South American art form from an ignominious death – dancing first with love, then with hate – says CHRIS SULLIVAN. A new documentary tells the tortured story of the dance’s greatest-ever partnership In the early years of the last century, tango – without doubt, the […]

PAUL CONNEW on the US president The word out of the White House is that Donald Trump considers Boris Johnson has ‘something of the clown’ about him. A viewpoint that their fairly brief encounter at the UN in New York this week did little to dispel apparently. The temptation is to dismiss one flaxen-haired egomaniac […]

Paul Connew on Donald Trump’s re-election masterplan. Irma and Harvey aren’t the only hurricanes to have traumatised America lately. There’s Hurricane Donald, too. A different kind of hurricane that only devastates the minds of Capitol Hill politicians and leaves bemused citizens with a wary eye on the democratic climate and posing the same question as […]