News and Opinion

This coming Thursday is Britain’s general election. The polls are variable enough that anything from a hung parliament to a 100-seat Conservative majority is possible (the SNP would have to disappear for Labour toget an […]

  This week, I had planned to feature a lot of stuff relating to the UK Election, but it’s proved very difficult to find any useful or enlightening comment, so you’re going to have to […]

  POUTS* has gone abroad to terrorise some other people and won’t be able to play much golf for a bit. Sad! The places he’s visiting are liable to offer him varying welcomes now that […]

It’s been an, er, interesting week, to be sure. European views of what’s happening in America are, I’m afraid, not what you might call particularly varied. Despite Herr Drumpf’s Germano-British ancestry, there seems to be […]

Having spent last weekend campaigning, I expected to produce a decent diary this week. However, as I sit down to compile this, I have a streaming cold, so it’s going to be rather less substantial […]

    Morning meese…I’m subbing for Michael this morning as he’s canvassing in England for the elections they are getting ready to have. Sorry to say this won’t be a Euro edition this morning as […]

Bonjour mesdames et messieurs. Aujourd’hui on vote en le premier tour de l’élection présidentielle francaise. In other words, it’s polling day in the first round of the French Presidential election. Fierce

We’ll start this week’s collection with the thoughts of Patrick Cockburn on Syria, since he knows more about what’s going on there than virtually any other journalist: President Donald Trump had little option but to […]