Ming Campbell, the man whose very name sounds like a budget airline that would leave you stranded in Tirana, has spent a lifetime proving that dignity in politics is not only possible but also oddly unpopular. At eighty-three, the former Olympic sprinter turned Liberal Democrat grandee now sprints mainly between BBC studios and House of…
Corey Lewandowski: The Man Who Weaponized Chaos and Outsourced It to the World By our correspondent in the smoking section of global politics Somewhere between the Beltway’s bottomless mimosa brunches and the Qatari-funded think-tank canapé circuit, Corey Lewandowski has become the export America never put a tariff on: the political operative who sells populist arson…
**Reform UK and the Return of Farage: The Empire’s Last Punchline Goes Global** From a safe distance—say, a café terrace in Lisbon where the espresso is strong enough to cauterize your existential dread—you can almost admire the sheer, stubborn persistence of Nigel Farage. The man has resurrected his political career more times than a Marvel…
Derrick Van Orden and the Global Art of Weaponised Outrage By our correspondent in the cheap seats, watching democracy do its interpretive dance Representative Derrick Van Orden has, in the grand tradition of American populists, perfected the art of turning a minor kerfuffle into a week-long international seminar on manners. The Wisconsin Republican’s recent decision…
Lord Glasman and the Global Afterlife of Blue Labour: A Cautionary Tale for Every Disillusioned Electorate If you’ve never heard of Maurice Glasman, Baron of Stoke Newington and Finsbury Park, congratulations—you’ve been spared one of Westminster’s more baroque intellectual side quests. Picture a bespectacled academic who once described himself as “a radical conservative with a…
The Return of the Gold-Leafed Meme: “Trump X” as Planet-Wide Shared Trauma By Luisa Branca, International Affairs Correspondent, somewhere between the duty-free shop and existential dread. In the grand tradition of sequels nobody asked for—think Godfather III, New Coke, or the 2008 financial crisis—comes “Trump X,” a freshly trademarked brand that sounds like a limited-edition…
Charlie Kirk and the Export-Grade American Outrage Machine By Our Man in the Departures Lounge, Terminal B Someone, somewhere, is making money off the fact that we are all talking about Charlie Kirk again. That is the only global constant in the saga of a 30-year-old American activist whose superpower is turning campus mic-drop moments…
Richard Tice is what happens when a property-developer-turned-politician discovers that Brexit is not, in fact, a temporary mood swing by the British electorate but a durable export commodity. From the glass towers of London’s Canary Wharf to the fluorescent glare of European Parliament committee rooms in Strasbourg, Tice has become the living embodiment of a…
Mike Huckabee: The World’s Favorite American Uncle—Whether It Invited Him or Not By Dave’s Foreign Correspondent-at-Large, still jet-lagged in Terminal B Mike Huckabee has never held a passport stamped by the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service, yet somehow his presence is felt from the bazaars of Istanbul to the karaoke bars of Manila. In an…
