Yesterday was Memorial Day in the United States, one of two annual commemorations of the service and sacrifice of the American armed forces. This Memorial Day, there is more sacrifice to remember: 1,647 American fatalities in Iraq, 144 in Afghanistan, and 40 more in other battlefields of the war on terror, from Uzbekistan to South   more

George Bush: re-elected. Tony Blair: re-elected. John Howard: re-elected. Meanwhile the two outstanding opponents of the Anglo-American anti-terror alliance, Gerhard Schroeder and Jacques Chirac, are in the pangs of the most humiliating defeat and repudiation in recent European politics. Who says there’s no justice in the universe?
Schroeder’s Social Democratic party this weekend suffered   more

A few days before George W. Bush’s second inaugural, I received an urgent call from a friend. Belinda Stronach wanted to come to Washington to see the event. Could I get her tickets to the swearing-in and the balls afterward?

We did get the tickets — and Belinda did the rest. Her progress through   more

Things are looking mighty bleak for the Liberals this week. So naturally, it is the perfect time for the media to open a lengthy discussion of the flaws and foibles of Conservative leader Stephen Harper.

You’ve been hearing for a week now that Harper is too angry and/or too hesitant, too opportunistic and/or too   more

Last week, tennis fans gathering at Berlin’s Rot Weiss club to enjoy the German Open received a jolt when they opened their programs. There appeared a photograph of Hermann Goring surrounded by uniformed Nazi officials, alongside text that described the flight of Jewish members from the club in the Hitler era. “With its membership   more

“Often in error, never in doubt” is the motto of the professional pundit. Today’s election is deeply troubling to conservative Washington pundits; even now, most of us cannot answer the simple question, “Should Tony Blair win or lose?”
Mr Blair has been as staunch a friend as the US has in the world. Throughout the   more

Michael Howard, the leader of the British Conservative Party, is really a very fine man: highly intelligent, principled, capable. As Home Secretary in the last Conservative government, he was a tough-minded crime fighter, Britain’s answer to Rudy Giuliani. Since he left office after the Conservative defeat in 1997, Britain generally and London especially have   more